Divya Athmanathan

Divya Athmanathan (MST Oxford, PhD NTU) is an Assistant Professor of English Literature at the Indian Institute of Technology in Madras, India. She has published on Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Gaskell, Wilkie Collins, and the Pre-Raphaelites. She also engages in creative writing, and has written short stories and plays set in the Indian contemporary and historical contexts.

The Baton

Verbal, verb-less, jabs of manifold colour crimson, gleaming gold and darkling from sisters of the cross of the familial kingdom arches of the eyebrows, with pits and crests on the turbulent waters of marital seas bobbing sisters, aunts, nephews, and nieces, and,