Category: Ballads

  • Angulimala

    Angulimala

    Choking on decades of quiet rejection and caregiving rage, Aryamba confronts her resentment beside Geshe-la, discovering the ancient bandit Angulimala trapped inside her own mind.

  • The Duchess Who Wasn’t

    The Duchess Who Wasn’t

    Dedicated to Margaret Wolfe Hungerford, whose sparkling wit, timeless romance, and enduring reminder that beauty lives in the beholder’s eye continue to enchant generations of storytellers.

  • OnaAshamsakal

    OnaAshamsakal

    A biting look at society’s cultural decay, somatic monsoon healing rituals, and why Onam celebrates the defiant, generous Mahabali over calculating conquerors.

  • The Woman Who Cried For Mysore.

    The Woman Who Cried For Mysore.

    A therapist explores how a client’s visceral anger toward 1947 history reveals forgotten emotional wounds, blending past life regression, Mysore royalty, and deep psychological healing.

  • The Swayam Rites.

    The Swayam Rites.

    “She performed her Swayam Shraddha, offered funeral cakes to her own soul, and walked away. She didn’t commit suicide; she committed the perfect, bloodless murder.”

  • Authorspeak

    Authorspeak

    Two old men. Two little girls. Two nineteenth-century novels. What if loneliness is not cured by insight, but by becoming necessary to another human being?