Demigods Are Alive By Monalisa Joshi ‘They were all breathing. Yes! They had been living and breathing inside me for a long time.’ As Monalisa Joshi pens these words in her acknowledgment and we go ahead reading the stories in ‘Demigods Are Alive’ we literally see the characters breathing and coming to life. Getting etched in our mind effortlessly, the stories take us on different journeys with myriad hues. Published by Chrysanthemum Chronicles, ‘Demigods Are Alive’ is the debut of Monalisa Joshi in the short stories genre by her own publishing house. Meticulously edited by Nandita De née Chatterjee, the book is a collection of six short stories. It is fiction, but the kind of characters it brings forth… one will literally find them living in different nooks and crannies of the world. The chief protagonists in ‘Demigods Are Alive’ are females where we get to see the two sides of a coin—their emotions an
