A Silent River Film and Literary Society journal
www.silentriverfilmandliterarysociety.org
Life and Legends – Tenth Edition
Published: June 15th 2021
Irvine, CA, USA
Editor-in-Chief
Kalpna Singh-Chitnis
Associate Editors
Lopa Banerjee
Megha Sood
Web Editor
Nirvan Chitnis
Cover Art
Silent River
Cover Photo
Ann Larin
Editorial – Kalpna Singh-Chitnis
Special Features
Interview
A Dreamer: Eternal and Unbound– An Interview of Melissa Studdard by Kalpna Singh-Chitnis
Epic
Kamayani: An Epic Hindi Poem by Jaishankar Prasad – Translated by Usha Kishore
Cultural Diplomacy
World Literature: The Need and Importance of Literary Translations an essay by Kalpna Singh-Chitnis
Destinations
Gibellina Vecchia, Sicily Creto, a travel essey by Ed Schad
Poetry
Clara Burghelzea
Don Campbell Kingfisher
Adrija Chatterjee
John Comminos
Joshua Corwin
David Dephy
Evie Groch
Hedy Habra
Fazlul Haque
Lowell Jaeger
Tim Kahl
Neera Kashyap
Sreekanth Kopuri
Gopal Lahiri
Diana Manole
Elizabeth Marino
Ken Massicotte
Sanket Mhatre
Cameron Morse
Anita Nahal
Suchita Parikh-Mundul
Kamala Platt
Kevin Powell
John J. Ronan
Nandini Sahu
Lauren Scharhag
Matt Schroeder
Oindri Sengupta
Amy Small-McKinney
Pragya Suman
Melissa Studdard
Alicia Viguer-Espert
Lighthouse (Flash Fiction)
A New Dawn– Indrani Talukar
The Hourglass– Chaitali Sengupta
My Sister and The Kite– Yuri Kageyama
Window Pane – An Ekphrasis Flash Fiction Collaboration with photography Window Pane by Beatrice Georgalidis, and Fiction by Mark Blickley
The Scream by Dhirendra Asthana– Translated from Hindi by Bhuvendra Tyagi
Walk with Me (Spiritual Poetry)
Sindhi Sufi Poetry of Sachal Sarmast: Translated by Lajwanti. K. Jaisinghani and Gayatri Chawala
Bedrock (Book Review)
Like a Bird with a Thousand Wings by Melissa Studdard – Reviewed by Megha Sood
A Roll of The Dice by Mona Dash– Reviewed by Candice Louisa Daquin
