ISSUE III: Heritage
"Heritage" is The Global Youth Review's third issue, which revolves around images of culture, identity, and home for our 27 contributors, who hail from across the globe. We warmly welcome you into a space filled with riveting prose, poetry, and photography, all of which celebrate individual and cultural identity. Designed by Sena Chang
"Heritage" is The Global Youth Review's third issue, which revolves around images of culture, identity, and home for our 27 contributors, who hail from across the globe. We warmly welcome you into a space filled with riveting prose, poetry, and photography, all of which celebrate individual and cultural identity. Designed by Sena Chang
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PROSE<br />
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POST<br />
SCRIPT<br />
By MANDIRA PATTNAIK<br />
A POSTCRIPT TO ‘‘THE CHART OF<br />
OUR LIVES’’<br />
That fall came and passed us by. We brown<br />
girls charted the courses of their lives, rowed on high<br />
turbulent seas, and ducked when the storms came.<br />
We’ve circumvented odds, wrapped our selfhoods<br />
with the fine tapestry of common pleasures.<br />
Lily is in Jalandhar with Mum and Dad.<br />
She is off her wheelchair and takes long walks over<br />
the mud ridges around vibrant yellow mustard fields<br />
with Dad. Mum dotes on them, Lily tells me. Lily<br />
can’t believe how Mum, the fiery one we knew, is<br />
so mellowed down: she spends hours embroidering<br />
Lily’s kurta with neat little daisies. She’s calmer and<br />
happier. And no, they’re not scouting for grooms for<br />
Lily yet.<br />
I am at the Law School in Barcelona due to<br />
graduate next year. Whether we tweaked our fates or<br />
these were always our destinies we shall never know.
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