Piker Press — Weekly Journal of Arts and Literature
April 13, 2026
Chitra Gopalakrishnan

Chitra Gopalakrishnan

Chitra Gopalakrishnan uses her ardor for writing, wing to wing, to break firewalls between nonfiction and fiction, narratology and psychoanalysis, marginalia and manuscript and tree-ism and capitalism.

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About Chitra Gopalakrishnan

Chitra Gopalakrishnan uses her ardor for writing, wing to wing, to break firewalls between nonfiction and fiction, narratology and psychoanalysis, marginalia and manuscript and tree-ism and capitalism.

As a New Delhi-based journalist and a social development communicator for 30 years, she enjoys this career of trying to figure out issues of social development and its impact -- or the lack of it -- on people. As a woman of color, she hears the voice of women on the margins more clearly than others.

Her fiction has appeared in the Celestial Echo Press, Black Hare Press, Fantasia Divinity, Me First Magazine, Reedsy, Terror House Magazine, Unpublished Platform, Literary Yard, Truancy, eShe, Literati Magazine, Spillwords, Fleas on the Dog, Twist and Twain, Velvet Illusion, CafeLit, Sky Island Journal, Scarlet Leaf Review, Breaking Rules Publishing and Runcible Spoon, among others.

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  • From Ephemeral to Eternal

    Chitra Gopalakrishnan, a New Delhi-based journalist and a social development communicator for 30 years, uses her ardor for writing, wing to wing, to break firewalls between nonfiction and fiction, narratology and psychoanalysis, marginalia and manuscript and tree-ism and capitalism.

  • Shakti's Essence: Innate and Infinite

    Music, they say, gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, love to the heart, flight to the imagination, and joy to life: Basundhara baulani, the wandering mystic minstrel's songs do just this and transform the people who listen to them. They are no longer the people they once were. And the baulani is no longer a wayfarer but one of their own.