Words Unlimited

02/10/2025

Naina Singh’s Red a pure celebration examines the paradox of red in cultural and religious contexts. The poem contrasts the celebration of women’s divinity during festivals with the daily oppression they face, showing red as both a symbol of honor and a mark of violence.

02/10/2025

In this piece, Unns redefines red as a paradox - tenderness and terror living in the same shade. Red begins as a symbol of love and promise, but mutates into a language of violation, pain, and silence. And yet, it endures as the colour of survival, resistance, and unapologetic rage.

02/10/2025

Red Flower by Sara B Sirohi is an anthem of self-realization and quiet strength. The speaker sheds fear, rejects control, and embraces their full being - sins, virtues, and all. The red flower in their hair becomes a crown of freedom and self-mastery.

02/10/2025

Kh. Jessica’s Dollhouse blurs the line between devotion and violence. It explores how a captive internalizes their captor’s rules, even tracing their wounds as if they were gifts. The piece is a disturbing meditation on conditioning, trauma, and the illusion of safety inside abuse.

02/10/2025

The Gospel of Ash & Daughters by Akansha Gund is a raw gospel of resistance. It speaks of daughters born into ledgers, women reduced to wombs, and gods fattened on stillborns. With searing honesty, it envisions not redemption but destruction as the only path to justice.

02/10/2025

Hemline of shame

An illustration by Nishika

02/10/2025

Nyx’s When RED Speaks.. is a powerful meditation on red as the language of resistance and survival. It portrays red as the voice of women, of q***r love, of scars, of fire that cannot be buried. Here, red is not shame but strength, not silence but a chorus.

02/10/2025

The Cannibal Within

An illustration by Nishika

02/10/2025

In Your Flowers Are Waxing and Waning, Bhavyaa Thakur writes of flowers as a mirror of love, ever blooming and ever fading, caught between vitality and decay.
Red becomes a language of passion, wounds, courage, and loss, where each bloom carries both beauty and forewarning.

02/10/2025

Where Love Bleeds, It Bleeds Red explores love as something fierce yet fragile.

Aastha uses red to embody passion, rage, courage, and vulnerability, describing love not only between people but also in fleeting connections, revolutions, and unshakable hope.

02/10/2025

September Issue - 2025

01/10/2025