Everything!

In Chronological Order

Night Queen

This wonderfully satisfying short story comes from Shiva Kumar. His writing is quirky, funny, and eminently readable. It is a style I truly appreciate for its wordplay and its ability to bring out the sense of the action. For a truly delightful experience, head on over to https://thewiklyupdet.blogspot.com/ and read…Continue reading→

Twice Lucky

This is the second time we’ve had the pleasure of getting one of Sarbari Sen’s stories on SloWord. She is, if you recall, the brain behind “A Chandelier for Vidya“. If you’ve read that you may have a vague sense of foreboding already. Here we go then! When they left…Continue reading→

Lost Friend and other poems

Mona Banerjee, from Kolkata, was born into a family of real literary giants; her maternal grandmother was Lila Majumdar, the well-known Bengali writer of children’s books. From her dad’s side, she’s linked to THE Tagores. Maybe this fueled her love for reading, writing, drawing … stuff like that. Family pressures…Continue reading→

Peacock Feather

Indrani Ganguli is that rare personality; an interpreter of languages, a salon-keeper of resolute character and a friend to many. She’s as adept at staring down recalcitrant witnesses in court while taking down their depositions as she is compassionate with those who clearly are devastated at being there at all….Continue reading→

Racism

Racism exists. Systemic racism exists. Personal racism exists. I’ve been late with this post. The main reason is work intruded. Also, two reasons, I’m called the SloMan. The third, I have three reasons, is the real one. There is just so much I want to say. In this post, I suspect, I…Continue reading→

General Update

Hello! We’re still under the cloud of COVID-19, so I thought I’d give you a general update. As you doubtless know by now, I live just around the southern edge of The Tundra, on the NorthWest shore of the eastern most of the Great Lakes. The Five Great Lakes. Lake…Continue reading→

Okra Yogurt

Introduction It’s time for okra with yogurt, folks. Yep! A recipe. A real one. With okra! But first! No, I’m not going to insert a video of Danny Kaye as The Inspector General. I did that once before and it’s old now. So then what? How should boredom be achieved?…Continue reading→

NaNoWriMo 2019

I won the challenge set by NaNoWriMo 2019. Here is my certificate. You’re probably wondering what I’m talking about, right? Right –> That way. Yep. For the second year in a row, I have managed, somehow, to meet the personal challenge of writing at least 50,000 words in the month…Continue reading→