ban·yan (ban-yan) n. an East Indian fig tree (Ficus benghalensis) of the mulberry family with spreading branches that send out shoots which grow down to the soil and root to form secondary trunks.

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Poetry

...Too full for words to start
that impart more reason
that no one will return again
for yet another year,
I search the cupboards
for something else to cook.

Fiction

...She walked to the chicken, grabbed its neck and picked it up. She looked it all over, and laughed. "You missed! Six shots and you couldn't even hit a standing-still chicken, from...," She eye-balled the distance between them, "seven lousy feet." She gave the chicken a little twirl, and cracked it like a whip. "That's how you kill a chicken."...

Book Review

...he delights us by drawing a meaningful conclusion, seeking to enable us to perceive the world from a radically different and unexplored perspective...

Contributors

...Nirlipto currently is a scientific researcher at the University of California, Santa Barbara whose passions include physics, figure-drawing, poetry and eastern philosophy...

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