
- Jun 29
- 1 min
Shallow-Deep
Said shallow to deep, ‘How can you be generous when you have so little?’ Said deep to shallow, ‘I have enough. I am quite content.’ ‘How...

- May 9
- 8 min
Portraits in Hell
The elders had been convinced by a series of mysterious deaths in the village that showering was a fatal affair. “We’ve lost twenty odd...

- Dec 29, 2021
- 1 min
A Love Poem
Sweat running down her spine, Burning away her life, standing in front of the stove, Stomach cut into two, butchered for two, I look in...

- Dec 27, 2021
- 6 min
The Mad, The Melancholic, The Poet - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
A didactic enumeration by seventeenth-century British Poet Laureate John Dryden, “Great wits are sure to madness near allied and thin...

- Dec 13, 2021
- 2 min
Women on the Street
"Gill Valentine’s research on adult versus youth spaces found that girls paradoxically identify public spaces, such as city streets, as...

- Oct 17, 2021
- 1 min
The Season of Florescence
In the early hours of a Sunday, On the backlane of a small town, a patch of bougainvilleas arrive into full bloom on a strange brick...

- Oct 9, 2021
- 7 min
Review: A Farewell to Gabo and Mercedes by Rodrigo Garcia
Why A Farewell to Gabo and Mercedes Feels so Personal I As children we see our parents as immortals. But while growing up, there comes a...

- Sep 15, 2021
- 2 min
Grammatical Gender
I.Heteronyms I’ve followed my shadow for as long as the two of us can remember. Once a month, she takes the lead by example for a few...

- Sep 5, 2021
- 1 min
Sacrifice
this time, it’ll be different he is different his family doesn’t slit pigeons for kali puja they free the birds who do they think...

- Jun 3, 2021
- 2 min
that summer we became birds
the tips of our wings / felt softer / than our hands ever could / ahead of us / the lake lay / like glass / lay like morning / pale and...