'A Death in the Forest' won the Rama Mehta Writing Grant Award, 2023. 

A Death in the Forest 

Story about an old man waiting to meet the Sahib.

The Sahib's Verandah

In ‘Three Acres Dry Land’, a story that highlights the injustice of caste and the vulnerability of a widowed woman who has been brutalised by her family, is at the government office discussing what she will do with her inheritance.

Three Acres of Dry Land

It is a warning bell when people start 'remembering' a food or drink: it means they are no longer consuming it.

Finding Food in Chandrapur

Motiram Kulmetha stood in a huddle with his brother-in-law and a distant uncle outside the courtroom. It was hot and sultry and there was a terrible stench in the corridor. There was an empty bench but they dared not sit on it. 

Motiram Kulmetha's Day in Court

Below us the water from the main canal flows into the branch that feeds the paddy – first in a trickle and then in a flow. Water snakes its way through crevices and furrows. Pradeep and his team smash the operator and the screw; they throw the chain 

Paromita Goswami

Selected work