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Weekend Poems

A rusted bell

Poem: Honk Honk

The writer Sandeep Jain writes under the pen name Timeless Poetry. He is a real estate broker to whom words come in an endless flow.

18 March 2023

The yellow leaves of pretty quarrels

Poems: Pain And Healing

Pain is a bedside lamp. It blinks like a jackal’s eyes, from the night bushes.

11 March 2023

I was not created for pleasure...

A  Woman's Body Writing Itself

I am a pitch-dark womb. I shelter God's fetus...standing on my toes. I am a whore: a flung open door through which men come and go pretending innocence.

18 February 2023

Many roads, different routes, some taken and few forsaken...

Of Roads, Love And The Fall

Time flies...Has it made me any wise?

11 March 2023

Poem Eating Together by Shantashree Mohanty

Poem: Eating Together

Shantashree Mohanty writes a poem about the experience of eating together with family.

05 March 2023

Under an open sky...

Short Poem: God

Eventually, my ideas of an all-powerful yet inherently benevolent entity called God turned into the mythical boulder crushing the shape of my Sisyphean mind.

18 February 2023

Lingering salt in claustrophobic sea...

Poems: The Scream And Lemongrass Tea

Melting grassroots/in an extrovert honey/her passionate lips...like the cappadocia balloons- primrose, pastel pink.

11 March 2023

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A paint brush.

Short Fiction: Still Life

It wasn’t evening yet. The drowning sun was dragging itself back into its hiding while the muezzin’s call to prayer announced itself from the speakers at a distant nook on the street which was called Sultanahmet.

24 December 2022

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24 December 2022
Life Is Like A Pencil Box

Life Is Like A Pencil Box

To all appearances, life seems to be like a ‘pencil box’. The traffic light at the intersection looks like the rounded pencil ferrule —functioning with...


17 December 2022
Short Poems

Short Poems

Here are four poems of Wilson Kateel that have been translated by Kamalakar Kadave.


17 December 2022
Poem: The Dante Dream

Poem: The Dante Dream

Dare I mention the desire of writing ever again in life? There came upon my ear a terse reply — Yes! Rightfully, in my place, to enjoy this pleasure that...


10 December 2022
In Lieu Of A Birth Certificate

In Lieu Of A Birth Certificate

I came to the world like a dead telegram...Locked in the jail, accused of stealing electric wire, the village thief’s faint sobs sparkle like my mother’s...


10 December 2022
Poem: She

Poem: She

They want to shackle her, But who can stop the rising sun? They want to silence her, But who can muzzle the raging wind?


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03 December 2022
The Day I Lost My Own Land

The Day I Lost My Own Land

As bulldozer had pierced our own land, own home. Those cruel people, on the bulldozer, had nothing their own.


19 November 2022
The Politics Of The Poor In A Democracy

The Politics Of The Poor In A Democracy

Much as in Brazil, Mexico, South Africa, Kenya, Turkey, and Malaysia, democracy in India has been a key plank of political legitimacy for anti-colonial elites...


05 November 2022
Karna – The Invincible Warrior 

Karna – The Invincible Warrior 

When Lord Parashurama, the incarnation of God, Was cursing me, You were watching me, Oh time, You will be a witness for the future Karna.


05 November 2022
Poems: NH-44

Poems: NH-44

Their heads bent, countless human-like figures drive automobiles, hang onto the railings of clean metros which move hurriedly, and some also walk with...


05 November 2022
Poems: Of Sylvan Days And Meteoric Nights

Poems: Of Sylvan Days And Meteoric Nights

Weekend poems: From the fistful firmament fostering frenzied fabliau, I gobbled up life at the city airport.


05 November 2022
Poems: To Friendship (Of LGBT)

Poems: To Friendship (Of LGBT)

So many years have I left behind, the times of hardship and grind. I have no words to aptly describe, how my fruits of labour turned ripe.


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17 September 2022
Collection Of Poems

Collection Of Poems

At the edge of the cliff. The world shrinks into two. Your good self and the depths below.


17 September 2022
Book Excerpt: Here And Hereafter: Nirmal Verma’s Life In Literature

Book Excerpt: Here And Hereafter: Nirmal Verma’s Life In Literature

'Traces of the Europe Nirmal Verma invented can be found in all his books. But it was with 'Shabd Aur Smriti' that I first encountered this imaginary...


17 September 2022
Poems: Hoarders Of Memories And The Safety Net

Poems: Hoarders Of Memories And The Safety Net

I remember reading somewhere...How children were taught young...At the dining table, to be precise...That conversation must never be inane.


17 September 2022
Colonel Chengappa's Legacy

Colonel Chengappa's Legacy

Colonel Chengappa and his wife were there to receive them outside their charming, colonial-era cottage, located on top of a hill and only a short walk away...


10 September 2022
Poem: Kolkata Hangover

Poem: Kolkata Hangover

The poet finds Kolkata as a lingering taste in her dreams.


03 September 2022
The Unrequited Amrita: On The Occasion Of Amrita Pritam’s 103rd Birth Anniversary

The Unrequited Amrita: On The Occasion Of Amrita Pritam’s 103rd Birth Anniversary

The individualist poet, novelist, playwright and essayist still lives on not only in the words she had written, but also the significant drift in the societal...


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