Memory - Tag | Hyphen

A journey through darkness and memory, where a son returns to perform his mother's last rites and confronts the life she lived without him.

By Vikram Paralkar · April 7, 2026

By Arjun Raghavan

By Rohan Murthy

Poetry

A journey through darkness and memory, where a son returns to perform his mother's last rites and confronts the life she lived without him.

A meditation on loss, mathematics, and the shapes we make of memory after someone we love disappears.

In a Delhi neighborhood where ancient waterways lie buried beneath concrete, a retired engineer maps what the city has chosen to forget.

An excerpt from the novel that traces a Hindu-Muslim love story across the 1947 divide, through seventy years of silence.