B Categories Poetry July, 2018 Body Oriented Reassurance rests on the tendon joining humerus to ulna and brother radius, a plain broad enough to set up cup and saucer in the correct..
R Categories Non-Fiction June, 2018 Remembering Bargemusic – A Love Story I wrote this piece in 1996, in the early years of Bargemusic, before its full flourishing and when it was still possible to get a..
T Categories Poetry June, 2018 The Little You Know About Yourself The best of you is rare explosives are what it makes, The places you’re destined to reach was screened by design, The little you know..
A Categories Poetry June, 2018 A vignette from a town of triumph I looked through a pinhole in an antiquated room with an inverted umbra of an aged easterly spire, the mysterious upside-down shadow had me consumed..
T Categories Poetry June, 2018 The Faucet The faucet in our kitchen is getting old I had touched it When we came to see the apartment The first one of our married..
T Categories Fiction June, 2018 The Night Chores This story won the first prize in the prose competition of Alcheringa festival's Zephyr literary event.
T Categories Fiction June, 2018 The Chair This story won the third prize in the prose competition of Alcheringa festival's Zephyr literary event.
B Categories Poetry June, 2018 Blue Hue This poem won the first prize in the poetry competition of Alcheringa festival's Zephyr literary event.
G Categories Poetry May, 2018 Garden of the Restless Martyrs ceramic mustard and ivory shells cradled in fruit skins and ashes once we were doll heads and now we are only ourselves we seem to..
J Categories Poetry May, 2018 Jane Doe Just a few broken bits of bone Some scraps of cloth and a hair or two Marked and placed in plastic bags Is all that..
O Categories Fiction May, 2018 Oh, Cardinal Directions! You’ll be the father of nations. Genesis 17:4 I. Ginny listened for the door and keyless lock of her husband’s car, but Leonard Cohen heard..
t Categories Poetry May, 2018 the eclipse and the exorcism It began then, during the ten wet nights of red crabs clawing at the moon, a nymph that had just drowned in a maelstrom; the..
T Categories Fiction May, 2018 The Last Message Parking next to her neighbour’s faded BMW, Arpita stepped out of her car and locked it. In her hand was a loaded carrier bag. She..
C Categories Fiction May, 2018 City of Coincidences Several days a week I would go to a little Internet café down under Avenue Mohammed V. I’d do my business, talk to Allal, pack..
A Categories Non-Fiction May, 2018 A Series of Backhanded Compliments “Before I met you, south Indian people made me cringe.” Just as my roommate uttered one of her most ignorant remarks to date, I bit..
S Categories Poetry May, 2018 Street Lamp When the opaque dusk swells, The broken street lamp’s Pearlescence of glass shards, Overshadows the warmth of light bulb The night is the unsung..
G Categories Fiction May, 2018 Garlic Boy The screams and cries are loudest at night and aggravate the inmates who encourage the predators and fantasize about the fate of the prey. It..
I Categories Poetry May, 2018 I set out to paint the light I set out to paint the light when it grows soft at summer’s end, but could not wrap my thoughts around the immensity of neglect..
F Categories Fiction April, 2018 Following Omar Thick clouds of snow had hovered over the valley for the past few weeks. Omar swung around his auto and parked outside the wooden awning..
T Categories Fiction April, 2018 THE RATTLER Chris Hartley, a tall, slim man, took a two-week vacation to escape his repetitive schedule. He drove his Honda sedan to a rented cabin in..
A Categories Fiction April, 2018 Ask Abhay Life is a strange animal. Full of surprises. One minute I am snoozing in my tattoo parlour in Hauz Khas the next thing I know..
A Categories Poetry April, 2018 Aleppo grief in weeks nothing has moved me. i chase something and fail. the screen dries my eyes. no rivers flow in Aleppo...
