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FICTION / The dawn’s return
5 September 2025, 18:58 PM ⁠⁠Fiction

MINDFUL MUSINGS - MELBOURNE JOURNAL

Work and hope: the salt and sugar of life. Our future is built on the foundation of these two elements. Grandma is reminded of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem, from which
15 July 2016, 18:00 PM

First Song before My Second Death

Is this the world whose soil gave away for long
1 July 2016, 18:00 PM

The Shame of Return

To catch the last train, I've kind of run all the way to the station and glimpsed
1 July 2016, 18:00 PM

West, East

The white woman and her husband fell into silence again. About a while ago the train was heading east, and now,
1 July 2016, 18:00 PM

The Great Burial

The heron had dreams in her wings
24 June 2016, 18:00 PM

Traffic Lights

The traffic signal turned red. I was in the front seat. My nephew, Ron was driving towards home, thoughtful as he looked straight
24 June 2016, 18:00 PM

Of Music and Passion

The sargam falls silent
24 June 2016, 18:00 PM

Seasons

As he watched the summer sun burn his skin to a darker shade of brown, he went into a reverie and saw his life like a flashback. The
17 June 2016, 18:00 PM

My East Bengal

My East Bengal, how astonishingly she is
17 June 2016, 18:00 PM

Drone strikes and authorial intentions

I saw Eye in the Sky the afternoon it opened in London. I went with few preconceptions, knowing only that it was about drones and
17 June 2016, 18:00 PM

The Wedding Ring

The Pakistanis were beaten at last. The flag of Bangladesh flew over the independent country. We all returned celebrating victory.
10 June 2016, 18:00 PM

Rising to the Surface

Readers of this paper may have seen a “short story” entitled “The Rising of the Dead”, which appeared on April 23, 2016. Presented as a work of fiction...
10 June 2016, 18:00 PM

Two Poems by Ahsan Habib

At last, I built a home on the ash-stacks of fallen leaves,
10 June 2016, 18:00 PM

Introduction

May this afternoon's feeble shadows fall upon all the heady lines of my poetry, or may heaps of dry leaves blaze up in flames beside them
3 June 2016, 18:00 PM

Of Things

Things are material in the hardest sense of the term. Things have shapes, textures, structures, and even timbres. Things have tones,
3 June 2016, 18:00 PM

New In Nagaland

The war that changed India and the world had one of its history-changing battles take place in the sprawling hills of Kohima. Across
3 June 2016, 18:00 PM

Murakami's Kafka on the Shore

When Kafka Tamura runs away from his Tokyo house the day he turns fifteen to escape a strange curse his father set upon him, little does he know his life will end up with so many twists and turns.
1 June 2016, 18:00 PM

Long To Belong

She walks the walk of her steps
27 May 2016, 18:00 PM

NEW IN NAGALAND

Once upon a time, there were head-hunters. Only presence we found in April 2016 were two skulls perched on bamboo shafts on
27 May 2016, 18:00 PM

The Bones of Grace

Tahmima Anam concludes her Bengal trilogy with a novel that, in recounting the story of a love across continents and ethnic lines,
27 May 2016, 18:00 PM