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January, 2024

After Life

What about unconditional faith? Isn’t it golden? Thoughts ricochet inside Hasan’s mind as he recollects the moments when he felt heavy in his heart because of believing in Allah. The moments of humiliation, confusion, anger, of being called backward, an antique, an old-fashioned fool by people half his age.

January, 2024

4 Poems by Yakir Ben Moshe, Translated by Dan Alter

Dan Alter translates 4 poems by Yakir Ben-Moshe.

Book Reviews

January, 2024

Origami Aai by Manjiri Indurkar

Kabir Deb reviews Manjiri Indurkar's Origami Aai.

January, 2024

Within bodies, around bodies

Malini gives us a personal essay on women's experiences and the body. In a subtle manner, the piece weaves in a political commentary as well.

January, 2024

Carnivorous Bird, Such as the Eagle

Words and water are life-giving: strictly essential. Like Noah’s flooded earth, words inundate, superfluously powerful. “The waters of the flood were upon the face of the earth…all the fountains of the great deep [were] broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened. And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.”

Poetry

January, 2024

At Sridhar Srigudda

At Sridhar Srigudda the rain comes once again electricity dies away while lightning flares tomorrow’s my birthday listening to night’s rain moutainside serenity dissolves time’s cares I’ll be 53 my life’s plan not yet plain I await a Calcutta job my love affairs are merely notes now Bhairavi’s sweet pain my trusty sarangi again prepares

January, 2024

Day’s Work

You find a spot a few feet away from the pool. As you stomp on the shovel you are surprised at how sad you feel, but a momentary lapse causes you to consider rushing the burial so you can get back to the pool and go home, which only replaces the original sadness with an agonizing guilt.

Poetry

January, 2024

A Consideration

At any rate, I’m soon off to Walmart for necessities. I’m running low on shampoo and body wash. If my intuition is correct

January, 2024

Shadow and Light

I look outside from my tall window in the living room. Our living room is small, and the big window helps because it gives you a sense of spaciousness. I see fields that are green and yellow and trees far away. Their leaves have started to fall because it’s autumn.

January, 2024

A Person is a Vine that grows on the Ground

She didn’t like how he kept calling her Myna. She had told him as much, but he persisted. It made her feel small and invalidated, like a gregarious little bird of her namesake, which always needed protection. She had resisted calling herself Myna, it seemed to lend her insignificance.

Literature

January, 2024

Book Excerpt from Strong Woman

TBR presents an extract of Strong Woman Reba Rakhshit. Reba was a stuntmaster who worked shoulder to shoulder with men to give her country its first ‘strong woman’. She was the first Indian woman to lift an elephant on her chest.

January, 2024

Surplus Value

We do not know what subject Naveed Bhai studied in university, but when he got out, he asked his father to wire him a small amount of money, which he invested in a shop in a strip mall in Alief. Actually, a friend of his father suggested the business to him, accompanied him to the site and negotiated the purchase of the shop.

Poetry

December, 2023

Twelve Poems in Translation

Sujit Prasad curates twelve poems in translation, for 12 months of the year 2023.

December, 2023

Leftover Woman

Monica Woo takes the reader on a journey with milestones marked by the lives of her nanny and her English professor.

Culture

December, 2023

Different Moods through Theyyam

Prashant Sankaran takes the reader on an illustrative journey of Theyyam, a famous ritual art form that originated in North Kerala.

Literature

December, 2023

An Eclectic Book Recommendation list by Gaurav Monga

Gaurav Monga, recommends an eclectic list of books that are sure to make you sit up

December, 2023

Dance of the Autumn Leaves

I raise my hand as if to slap his left cheek and the boy winces. A tinge of regret travels from my palm up to my headache. Both the boy’s smile and the cat simultaneously fall to the ground.

Creative Non-Fiction

December, 2023

O Christmas Feast, O Christmas Feast

The Author imparts upon the readers the relish of Christmas feasts entwined with its history and significance

December, 2023

Packing/Unpacking

Anne is not efficient. The date of the closing is set, and she needs to be out. It is as cruel and simple as that.

Book Reviews

December, 2023

After the Fall of a Cloud by Oindri Sengupta

Sucharita Dutta-Asane reviews Oindri Sengupta's After the Fall of a Cloud.

December, 2023

Unorthodox

I frown, miraculously suppressing an impulse to laugh. Is my father going crazy? How come I haven’t noticed a sign although we are living, separately, under the same roof?

December, 2023

Hoof

Animals in the area had begun to grow hands, opposable thumbs in fact, while the rest of their bodies remained the same. They’d heard bobcats and coyotes howling off in the distance, maybe on the now mostly abandoned golf course.