May 2025
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Re-reading the Classics – Once There Was A King By Rabindranath Tagore
In Re-reading the Classics, TBR tries to entice the readers into going back to reading some of the most famous books that were a large part of our growing up.
Writer Bishwanath Ghosh takes TBR on a journey through his study and home
Writer Bishwanath Ghosh takes TBR on a journey through his study and home.
TBR pays homage to the last of the Beats-poet Gary Snyder, who turns 95!
TBR pays homage to the last of the Beats-poet Gary Snyder, who turns 95!
Watercolor: A Quiet Moment in the Garden City—Bangalore, India
After dinner I hear the music of the ceremony across the street.
Leaving the City
You board another train, but it’s another season, maybe even another year. You travel quietly. Pairs of eyes sit across in varying degrees of kindness.
Aloe
Plant mother to plant mother, I get it The sun shines on, dutiful and tired And I am tempted to break
On Hamlet’s Flute
On Hamlet’s flute old bones of Elsinore shook and shuckered up the graves they died and dyed the earth in.
House of the Dead
The dead mattered more than the living. One night, the fire alarm didn’t go off.
rain is rare and it is welcome but it doesn’t solve anything and actually that’s okay
And the rain swept in a little fast for her liking but there was no helping it was there And nobody picked up the phone when she called
The Door and the Dog
Had I been asleep, I might have missed the sound, like a strange scuttling against the walls. I glanced over at the boy in the corner, but he remained silent
October
I stub the butt of my cigarette out and stare blankly at the too trimmed row of bushes bordering our backyard. Michigan is chilly in October. I go inside.
The Invasion
The berries they usually found in wild abundance failed to materialize. At first the stories struck her as apocryphal. Bears were reportedly ripping…