Non-fiction serves as a conduit for conveying information, ideas, and truths. It is the architecture of knowledge, constructing narratives that explore, explain, and illuminate various aspects of the real world.
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अनकही #15
Hitting the buckets hurts her back a little more today. But she cannot tell this to her employer. After all, this is her bread and butter. This is the reason…
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अनकही #14
She’s 20, in college. This is the first time she’s heard the definition of domestic violence. Her friend, who got married three years ago, is telling her about it. But…
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अनकही #13
Howls. Sobs. The sound of leather on skin. These sounds that she hears all day, come back to her every night. She can see the sounds on their bodies. The…
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अनकही #12
Carefully, as though it might break, Dikshika applies medicine over the scar on her hand. When she got it over three days ago, she didn’t care; it would go away…
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अनकही #10
The words take up all the space in her head. She thinks of them, tries saying them out loud—rolls them around on her tongue. She tries to figure out their…
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अनकही #09
Rita’s favourite game to play as a child was hide-and-seek. A young girl: her friends would hide, and she would seek. Always. She loved seeking—finding, exploring, discovering. Every evening, without…
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अनकही #08
A noisy Sunday evening: cars honking, passer-bys shouting, music blaring from somewhere far away. In the middle of all the noise sat Anita on her rocking chair, diligently listening to…
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अनकही #07
Recount how many people you know who, without having any remote understanding of finances, have been given the task of running an entire family with nothing in their hands. Who…
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अनकही #06
The hospital’s corridors are dark and quiet, with the exception of the muffled sobs ringing through the rooms. The central air conditioning does not work, and so beads of sweat…
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अनकही #05
10 PM in the night and the air outside is thick and moist, and it looks as if it is going to rain. But none of these harsh conditions affects…
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अनकही #04
In an academic institution, crises come and go. Some days it is the electricity that is malfunctioning, or the infrastructure that is misbehaving, or the children that are lost, confused,…
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अनकही #03
Ankita-Devi spends her days with the tag of ‘the inferior gender’ forever following her around. It is with her when she wakes and is inevitably restricted to the duties of…
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