Ghachar Ghochar

by Vivek Shanbhag

Words, after all, are nothing by themselves. They burst into meaning only in the minds they’ve entered.

On that day I became convinced that it is the words of women that wound other women most deeply.

The result was that we simply did not desire what we couldn’t afford. When you have no choice, you have no discontent, either.

“They’re not ants. They’re evil spirits come here in disguise.”