Contents: Preface. 1. Five crows and one freedom fighter/Shaheen Akhtar. 2. From The Inheritors/Aruna Chakravarti. 3. Cascading rain/Jharna Das Purkayastha. 4. Mrs. Duttaray/Sanjukta Das Gupta. 5. Jungle story/Nabaneeta Dev Sen. 6. Memories of a floral clock/Nabaneeta Dev Sen. 7. Crossfire/Audity Falguni. 8. Ephemeral/Sunil Gangopadhyay. 9. A truth bound sentiment/Sunil Gangopadhyay. 10. This hand has touched/Sunil Gangopadhyay. 11. Better than writing poetry/Sunil Gangopadhyay. 12. This one noon/Joy Goswami. 13. In the evening sadness comes/Joy Goswami. 14. Narrator/Joy Goswami. 15. Valentine's Day/Sulabha Gupte. 16. Ode on the Lungi/Kaiser Haq. 17. To the press reporter/Syed Shamsul Haq. 18. Invitation to a reading of my poems/Syed Shamsul Haq. 19. The Ballad of the Gravedigger's Daughter/Khondakar Ashraf Hossain. 20. Noorjahan/Khondakar Ashraf Hossain. 21. The woodpecker/Khondakar Ashraf Hossain. 21. Leaving home/Selina Hossain. 22. The Merman's Prayer/Syed Manzoorul Islam. 23. How Do I Look, Really?/Nasreen Jahan. 24. Argus under Anaesthesia/Razia Khan. 25. Flotsam/Makbula Manzoor. 26. Daughters of Earth in the land of angles/Jharna Rahman. 27. Mediterranean/Sudeep Sen. 28. One moonlight December night/Sudeep Sen. 29. A blank letter/Sudeep Sen. 30. Bharatanatyam Dancer/Sudeep Sen. 30. Pagli/Anwara Syed Haq. Writers.