LEMON & CHILI "We all shut our eyes and muttered a little prayer for Shiney, but I felt nothing. Death had become so predictable a state that I had neither the youthful reverence for it nor the middle-age fear.." After reading 'Lemon & Chili', Meghna Pant's heartbreaking fiction piece, one thing is certain - you will never think of 'Mall Rats' the same way again. View |
Invitation Sweta Srivastava Vikram is an author, poet, writer, blogger, marketing professional living in New York City. She has published a book of poetry, Pabulum (Lelo Media). Sweta’s pieces have appeared or is forthcoming in Desijournal, Rangoli Magazine, Kala Kahani among others. EGO invites you to savor her flash fiction piece. View |
A Just Country 'A Just Country' is a rivetting piece of 'Napkin Fiction' by V. V. Ganeshananthan. The Washington Post Book World named her debut novel Love Marriage(Random House, 2008)one of their Best of 2008. This fall, she will begin teaching creative writing at the University of Michigan. She is a current board member of SAJA. View |
Unseen Relations “...Mom, will you tell me what happened? Don’t you think I deserve to know? For closure?” Sarah was persistent, like her father"...... 'Unseen Relations' is Sweta Srivastav Vikram's maiden contribution to EGO. Sweta is an author, poet, writer, blogger and marketing professional based in NYC. View |
ICARUS EGO shares a gem of a story by Deepak Unnikrishnan. At night, when street lights stood exhausted and alone, out ventured men and women bicycling by Hamdan’s street corridors, watchful as they hunted. Their job was to find construction lads who had mistakenly fallen off incomplete buildings and set them right, finding lost limbs, make... View |
Fair Trade Preeta Samarasan has a MFA in creative writing from the University of Michigan. She won the 2006 Hopwood Novel Award at that university, as well as the 2006 Asian American Writers' Workshop Short Story Award. Her novel, Evening Is The Whole Day, is forthcoming in May 2008 from Houghton Mifflin. View |
Poetry by Sharanya Manivannan EGO presents four poems by Sharanya Manivannan. Sharanya Manivannan was born in India in 1985 and grew up in Sri Lanka and elsewhere. She is working on her first novel, Constellation of Scars, and has completed a book of poems entitled Witchcraft. Sharanya can be reached at http://sharanyamanivannan.blogspot.com View |
S. Delhi Roadside, 9p.m. EGO presents poetry by Michael Creighton. Michael Creighton is an American elementary school teacher married to an Indian writer. Two years ago, they moved with their three young children to Delhi, where they now happily reside. His poetry has appeared in The Sunday Oregonian, The Asian Age, kaleidowhirl, and Ruminate. View |
Sweet Dreams, Sinclaire "They knew the right words, and when to say them. No turn-of-phrase escaped their attention. They rejoiced in idealism and philosophy, and reveled in certain pieces of cinematic brilliance." EGO presents "Sweet Dreams, Sinclaire," a novel excerpt by Mo Shah. View |
Miles EGO presents "Miles," a story by Michael Tyrell. Michael Tyrell co-edited the poetry anthology Broken Land: Poems of Brooklyn (NYU Press, 2007). His poems have appeared in Agni, The Paris Review, Ploughshares, and The Yale Review. View |
