"Why am I doing this?" / Hema Nair -- The spouse and the preacher / Bapsi Sidhwa -- On a cold day / Himani Bannerji -- A child departs / Perviz Walji -- Bad luck woman / Chitra Divakaruni -- A new reading of "Wasteland" / Arun Prabha Mukherjee -- American date / Nazneen Sheikh -- Free and equal / Lalita Gandbhir -- AIDSwallah / Feroza Jussawalla -- Crossing the threshold / Surjeet Kalsey -- Freeze Frame / Uma Parameswaran -- Because I could not stop for death / Ramabai Espinet -- Love in an election year / Tahira Naqvi -- Crossmatch / Farida Karodia -- No nation woman / Meena Alexander -- Circum the gesture / Yasmin Ladha -- Behind the headlines / Vidyut Aklujkar -- Altered dreams / Lakshmi Gill -- Her mother's ashes / Geeta Kothari -- A memory of names / Roshni Rustomji-kerns.