Abira Kannan

Abira Kannan is a Tamil Australian graduate of Psychology and Creative Writing from Deakin University. She writes about various social, cultural and political issues with themes including nostalgia, oppression, identity, power and resilience. She has work published in Entropy Magazine and can be found on Instagram @writingbyabira.

Homesick For Noise

I hated sleeping in India while travelling for a friend’s wedding. a foreign bedroom of sweltering heat enveloped my sticky body as I restlessly slapped pesty mosquitoes rambling in my ear. to my left, a competition took place between the

VHS Tapes

Tapes are the comrades to simplicity.  cassette click. Margherita pizzas our incense. indeed a mouldy remnant of earlier times but the only place left to see long gone family like mufasa from the lion king.   an era of

A Whole New World

A WHOLE NEW WORLD  ‘I can open your eyes Take you wonder by wonder Over, sideways and under On a magic carpet ride’    The tabletop fountain in the middle of the warm room calmed her down. Jasmine took a deep breath