Poetry
A Fictional Biography of What the Body Wants
Sequence I I am afraid of the knock on the door— the monster is trying to define me. The streets are full of bags stuffed with torn pages of banned novels. Are books t…
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Ceasefire
I sit with my palms open for 21 days – letting all go: you, purpose and heat; ‘It takes 21 days to form or break a habit’ – my mind gathers what Instagram says, the th…
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Four Poems
Half Digital Half the body, flesh and bone. Half, digital. Half the mind, made of muscle and nerve. Half, digital. Half of touch, skin against skin. Half, digital. Hal…
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Mehbub Express: A Monograph
On a summer break as we sat in the Kottayam Passenger, Mehbubikka said: Teyi! Try putting your eye in your ear. Kollaththe Pappadam Gandan Pappadam Kollaththe Pappadam…
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Six Poems
Salt Everything exists in plenty Plenty of walls Plenty of wheels Plenty of love songs Plenty of news Plenty of porn sites Plethora We don’t realize we are suffocating…
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Three Poems
Nipple Clips and Naked Jeans The line between bold and vulgar is thin – fashionist Maggie Weber Exceptional women looking and feeling best in, like Kim’s Mugler drip s…
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Three Poems
Visiting Kaali in Sadar Bazaar, Meerut Cantt Where unfolds the temple lane like a slim invite, a masjid rests under a sun-draped dome. Inside, a gurudwara faces the De…
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Two Poems
My Mother’s Widowhood When Father died I was ten. My mother was thirty. Now I am fifty And my mother seventy. In these past forty years How many colours Has my rainbow…
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Two Poems
Cruelty Little by little, forgiveness will diminish. The longing for love will remain, but not the need. The restlessness of gaining, the pain of loss, will fall away.…
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Two Poems
Afruza Sent Me Some Dates Month of Ramadan Afruza sent some dates for me In a packet marked brotherhood. Written in a chit ‘Relish the dates, bhaijaan’. I do not obser…
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A Year of Long Distance and Nighttime Jazz
A poem of music, memory, winter, and the proof of change.
Book Reviews
The World Is an Absurd Offering: A Review of Suchita Parikh-Mundul’s Absurd Theatre
Kabir Deb reviews Suchita Parikh-Mundul’s Absurd Theatre.
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Alphabet without Conception
A poem tracing an alphabet of grief, possibility, and imagined motherhood.
The Poetry Cast
Mani Rao reads from So That You Know
These poems are excerpted with permission from HarperCollins Publishers India, from their audiobook edition of 'So That You Know', written and read by Mani Rao.
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My Depression Wears a Red Silk Dress
A poem in which depression appears dressed for one more dance.
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My faith
A poem of roads, faith, memory, and old survival rituals.
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On the Eve of Ramadan
A poem about hunger, memory, and joining Ramadan for a day each week.
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Paper City
A poem of smokestacks, silence, and the birds that used to be there.
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Recalibration
A poem about a world that has shifted and a body that revises with it.
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The Corporation
A poem about one last board meeting after the Yellowstone supervolcano erupts.
Book Reviews
The Hour of God by Vinita Agrawal
Shabnam Mirchandani reviews Vinita Agrawal’s The Hour of God.
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Grief IV
Grief is sometimes a pair of oversized trousers. I put my legs in and all air presses upward.
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Full Moon
The moon is a feminist. She’s showing me her round belly, pregnant with herself, glowing. Fullness, she tells me, is powerful.
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Learning a Bird
Be called to wild places; gather names, welcome flowers—beside the road, through cracks in sidewalks— miracles on a wooded trail. Pay rapt attention. Treasure