V. Ramaswamy

Nappy Change by Subimal Misra

[Yes, for Tapasi Mallick, institutionally murdered at the behest of debased power mired in political absolutism, power junkies, their geriatric bones creak yet they carry on like dogs in heat …] She was a young girl, just eighteen or nineteen years old, it was dawn, and while it was still dark – perhaps it was this moment that was referred to as brahmamuhurta in the Upanishads – she had gone to the fields just like she did everyday, before the civilized world woke up.