Mint Lounge Fiction Specials
For the first week of every year, Mint Lounge hands the job of storytelling to some of the country’s most interesting writers of fiction. We invite them to look ahead and tell us how they see the world or what they imagine it to be. Like every year, we shared a simple prompt with authors and requested them to re-interpret it for the year ahead. This year’s prompt is “War and Peace”, part literary, part philosophical and very real in the world we inhabit right now. The collection of stories that follow is a result of this.
A note on the issue: Imagining the stories of our time
For the first week of the year, we hand the job of storytelling to some of the country’s most interesting writers of fiction
2 min read4 Jan 2025Lounge Fiction Special: ‘The many lives of a leaf’ by Uddipana Goswami
Do wild thoughts count as resistance? Is charting one’s own path and travelling alone a rebellion that will be remembered?
14 min read5 Jan 2025Lounge Fiction Special 2025: Woman and Dog by Shanta Gokhale
In an upside-down world, a human and an animal ramble on, propelled by ego, but lost to history
9 min read5 Jan 2025Lounge Fiction Special 2025: Heads or Tails by Zeyad Masroor Khan
Who decides the size of or need for a sacrifice?
12 min read4 Jan 2025Lounge Fiction Special 2025: ‘Training’ by Gogu Shyamala
Is war a debate, a dilemma or a drama? Or can it be a poem? A class contemplates its many meanings
11 min read4 Jan 2025Lounge Fiction Special 2025: ‘Khalil’ by Tanuj Solanki
From being central to war and peace alike, the mule has become, for the most part, an object of figurative art
10 min read4 Jan 2025Lounge Fiction Special 2025: ‘Kukri’ by Vikram Shah
Happiness, innocence, abandon, it is all too much to sustain over a life
20 min read3 Jan 2025Lounge Fiction Special 2025: ‘Ocean of Spines’ by Prashanth Srivatsa
Trying to conjure a sliver of the past, and remember to whom a story belonged
10 min read3 Jan 2025