1. When A Ladyboy Loves A Foreign Man
(March 2015/Contest winners)

...dy, but a colourful, theatrical and transcendental storytelling like the life of a ladyboy seems to unfold. [Read Vinita Agrawal's commentary on "When A Ladyman Loves A Foreign Man"] [Ba...

2. Karvat
(March 2015/Contest winners)

... space and human body, and the impulsive urges to settle in it. The former and the latter rarely ever meet. [Read Vinita Agrawal's commentary on "Karvat"] [Back to "The Other Side&q...

3. Subjections
(March 2015/Contest winners)

... crime rates, either abandoned or wrongfully confiscated, and I just wish to see all of them being claimed. [Read Vinita Agrawal's commentary on "Subjections"] [Back to "The Other S...

4. Blended Learning
(March 2015/Contest winners)

...ons of history, and the inability to fully grasp one's own place within a series of complex landscapes. [Read Vinita Agrawal's commentary on "Blended Learning"] [Back to "The Ot...

5. A Corniche in China
(March 2015/Contest winners)

...te that same Sunday evening on a sheet of Qingdao hotel stationary, holding an icepack against my forehead. [Read Vinita Agrawal's commentary on "A Corniche in China"] [Back to "The...

6. Befriending The Dead
(March 2015/Contest winners)

... all ideas of foreignness, the deep sense of transitoriness, the comfort of turning foreign into familiar. [Read Vinita Agrawal's commentary on "Befriending the Dead"] [Back to "Th...

7. At My Grandfather's Funeral
(March 2015/Contest winners)

...ld assert his intelligence, or deliver him from the mistakes he could make. Life doesn't work that way. [Read Vinita Agrawal's commentary on "At My Grandfather's Funeral"] [Back ...

8. The Unfinished Word
(March 2015/Contest winners)

...tripping down to lay bare the reality of a boy's humble struggle in the presence of a plangent absence. [Read Vinita Agrawal's commentary on "The Unfinished Word"] [Back to "The...

9. "The Other Side" Poetry Contest Winners: Why We Chose These Poems
(March 2015/Contest winners)

by Vinita Agrawal First Prize: Arian Tejano's "When A Ladyboy Loves A Foreign Man" It was easy to award this poem the first prize. The expressions in this piece are incre

10. Guest Editors and Contest Judge
(March 2015/Contributors)

...he is currently studying sarangi. Israel helped select the prose in the March 2015 issue of Cha. [Cha profile] Vinita Agrawal was one of the two judges (along with Tammy Ho Lai-Ming) of "The O...

11. Words Not Spoken
(June 2012/Poetry)

by Vinita Agrawal After mother passed away, the house shrunk, silence expanded. Father and I heard pins of emptiness drop. We discussed animatedly about the sooty sun behind the clouds, the salty rain

12. Vinita Agrawal
(June 2012/Contributors)

Born in Bikaner, on 18 August 1965 and educated in Kolkata and Baroda, Vinita Agrawal is an Indian English poet, feature writer and researcher currently living in Delhi. Her poetry has been published

13. The Refugees Are Here
(March 2012/Poetry)

by Vinita Agrawal The refugees are here...              the air around them is wilted         &nbsp

14. Vinita Agrawal
(March 2012/Contributors)

Born in Bikaner, on 18 August 1965 and educated in Kolkata and Baroda, Vinita Agrawal is an Indian English poet, feature writer and researcher currently living in Delhi. Her poetry has been published

15. Cha: An Asian Literary Journal
(March 2012/Front page)

...their work: Poetry: Ricky Garni, Wendy Xu, Meg Eden, Leanne Dunic, Vineet Kaul, Linda Whittenberg, Arthur Leung, Vinita Agrawal, Judith Huang, Kathlene Postma, David W. Landrum, David Mckirdy Encoun...

16. Cha: An Asian Literary Journal
(June 2012/Front page)

...ia Cariño, Eddie Tay, Aye Wollam, Daryl Yam, Rumjhum Biswas, Ken Turner, Stephanie Han, Joseph O. Legaspi, Vinita Agrawal, John McKernan, Birgit Linder, Michael Gray, Donna Vorreyer Fiction: ...

17. Cha: An Asian Literary Journal
(March 2015/Front page)

...ether the new edition. We would also like to thank Eddie Tay for the fine selection of book reviews and Vinita Agrawal for reading the contest poems and writing a commentary. The issue...