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Navratra

Navratra is a bilingual writer from Jaipur, India, where her love for writing blossomed in school. Her notable works have been featured in prominent literary magazines and journals, including Sahitya Kunj, Spillwords Press, Setu Magazine, The Criterion, Madras Courier, The Beautiful Mind Journal, Scarlet Dragon Fly Journal, Indus Woman Writing, Basset Hound Press, Fevers of the Mind Journal, and Piker Press, among others.
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Beyond ‘Good Touch Bad Touch’

The lesson’s familiar, yet incomplete,For safety’s sake, we must redefineThe boundaries of touch, the invasion of sightWhen eyes devour, and privacy takes flight Private spaces, once sacred, now breachedBy hungry gazes that linger and clutchThough assault and murder loom larger stillWe mustn’t
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Childhood’s Fable, Womanhood’s Scar

Childhood’s facade shatterslike brittle glass on concretethe crayon’s vivid scrawlbleeding into nursery wallsMama’s voice a whispered lie“kind eyes of a god”a fortune in his pocketa mind like sharpened glasscutting through deceit The silver screen’s false promisesSuperman’s impossible featsa composite of flawless liesa
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