May 2019
In this issue
Contents
Silk Veil
The Sukshma Series is a first-hand account of an educated woman of post-colonial India reflecting on how the social and political set-up of the country defined the status of an Indian woman.
Nothing Survives
Words leap over words Trounce each other Silence survives. Time runs over time Flatten each other Memory survives. Pages pile over pages Bury each other..
Flowering
There is a sunflower erupting through the simian crease of my right palm. I shed layer after layer of salty skin till the petals glow..
In the City of Panorama
Some trees are male, some female; Our house had four of them, And though I circled them every day as a kid— Looking for any..
Two Scenes
1. A man reads the newspaper as if his son would turn up on page three. The chaiwallah makes a cutting, not because a half..
Burnt Brown
As far as I can see, the trees brown beneath fall’s frost. Mother’s skin is marred by age spots as death’s knell calls frost. Forests..