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 ManivannanEGO 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 |
MilesEGO 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 |
Losing Her Religion![]() EGO presents "Losing Her Religion," a story by Manjula Menon. Manjula's stories have appeared or are forthcoming in Nimrod, North American Review, Santa Monica Review, Pleiades and Southern Humanities Review, One of her stories was nominated for inclusion in the 2006 Best New American Voices anthology. View |
Lokhi MeyeEGO presents a poem by Abeer Hoque. "Dina wants to know about back doors her ruby mouth purses velvet tongued she leans towards me on the lime green sofa knees one way, body another legs to everywhere" View |
Entry![]() "The door jerked open. He squinted at us through cloudy, sleep-filled eyes. He had a mustache, his lips were dark and chapped. There was a patch of dried skin on his left cheek. We all stepped back, except my mother, who extended her hand." EGO Magazine presents a story by writer Alka Khushalani. View |




