“Miniscule minority” “Miniscule minority”
– the judges kept on barking,
clearly they’ve never been
on a Sunday evening to the
park above the Palika parking.
Akhil Katyal, Delhi
(Akhil Katyal’s fourth book of poems A Biography of After is forthcoming from HarperCollins India (2024). He is the author of Like Blood on the Bitten Tongue: Delhi Poems (Westland), the translator of Ravish Kumar’s A City Happens in Love (Speaking Tiger), and the co-editor of The World that Belongs to Us: An Anthology of Queer Poetry from South Asia (HarperCollins India). Katyal teaches Creative Writing at Ambedkar University, Delhi.)
