Under the Rules & Regulations of the Apartment Owners’ Association of the Sandhyatara Apartment Complex, pet animals were prohibited. No one had violated the prohibition so far; but a puppy arrived in Apartment 1102, on the eleventh floor of Building C, about a month back.
The year 2025 marks the 150th year of the birth of Rainer Rilke, and as we enter the centenary of his passing in December, Shantanu Ray Chaudhuri looks at some of Rainer Rilke’s greatest poems and how they impacted him.
"What kind of purple?" I hadn’t a clue. She prodded me forward. "Is it blue purple or red purple?" Blue purple, I was sure. "And what color is the shadow?" Purplish grey, I guessed. Yes, she said and awarded me the praising smile I coveted.
This essay, written by Vartan Koumrouyan, recounts the author’s experience living in rural Palawan, Philippines, during a period of relentless rain and storms.
“The marigolds are dying,” Maggie started the conversation as if they were already in the middle of a conversation. She then sucked a cigarette, her exhalation roaring into the receiver. “It’s only September.”
The boy was fourteen, so he knew what he was doing. At fourteen we are everything we will ever be which is why it’s then that the world attempts to so drastically improve us.
This TBR Highlight seeks to draw attention to writings, conversations and artwork by Afghan women that Usawa Literary Review has courageously and emphatically presented in their Matchbox edition, September 2025.
