Non-Fiction
My Creativity and My Dilemmas
Manoj Rupda reflects on the writer’s inner conflicts: creative freedom, political danger, social taboo, and the cost of remaining truthful.
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Short Fiction
Ishwara
When Ishwara returned to Bhuvanagiri after thirty-seven years, the town had changed so completely that he could not recognize a single thing. The mud roads were now ta…
Short Fiction
Koovam
Centuries ago, when the commercial ships of the Romans docked at Manarfa (Mylapore), the first to smile at the merchants inside them was this river — Koovam. In those…
Short Fiction
Restaurant
She woke up. She lay on the bed, her eyelashes still lowered. In the tiny gap between waking and seeing, the first thing she remembered was that today was her day to g…
Poetry
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…
Poetry
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…
Poetry
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…
Poetry
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.…
Poetry
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…
Translations
Why Nails Grow?
R. Raj Rao and Babar Ali Sayyad translate Hazari Prasad Dwivedi’s Why Nails Grow?
Fiction
The Subsequent Incident
Under the Rules & Regulations of the Apartment Owners’ Association of the Sandhyatara Apartment Complex, pet animals were prohibited. No one had violated the prohibition so far; but a puppy arrived in Apartment 1102, on the eleventh floor of Building C, about a month back.
Poetry
Sinduraruna
Sinduraruna is a translation of the Dhyana Sloka of the Sri Lalita Sahasranama.
Translations
The Death by Yeshe Dorjee Thongchi (Translated by Jyotirmoy Prodhani from the Assamese short story, ‘Mrityu’)
Jyotirmoy Prodhani translates Yeshe Dorjee Thongchi’s Assamese short story, ‘Mrityu’.
Poetry
Lal Ded’s Poems in Translation
Arvind Gigoo translates Lal Ded’s poems.
Poetry
Three Poems by Gavrila Derzhavin in Translation
Peter Orte and John Hamel present translations of Derzhavin’s three poems.
Translations
Rabindranath Never Ate Here by Mohammad Nazim Uddin
This is an excerpt from the crime thriller, Rabindranath Never Ate Here, by Mohammad Nazim Uddin of Bangladesh, a bestseller in Bangla. Translation by V. Ramaswamy.
Poetry
Five Poems by Adnan Kafeel ‘Darwesh’ Translated from Hindi by Rituparna Sengupta
Rituparna Sengupta translates five poems by Adnan Kafeel “Darwesh” from Hindi into English.
Poetry
Underground Poetry From West Bengal and Bangladesh Translated by Rajat Chaudhuri
Writer/translator Rajat Choudhuri Chaudhuri brings together poets from both India and Bangladesh, from cities like Kolkata and Dhaka, who write in Bangla.
Poetry
4 Poems by Osdany Morales, Translated by Harry Bauld
Harry Bauld translates 4 poems by Osdany Morales.
Poetry
4 Poems by Yakir Ben Moshe, Translated by Dan Alter
Dan Alter translates 4 poems by Yakir Ben-Moshe.
Specials
Poem by Alexandra Domínguez, Translated by Jeremy Paden
Jeremy Paden translates a poem by Alexandra Domínguez
Specials
Banarasidas’s Ardhakathanak
Rohini Chowdhury has translated the seventeenth-century Braj Bhasha text, Ardhakathanak (A Half Story), the first autobiography in an Indian language.
Specials
Tracing Hundred and Fifty Years of Commercial Bengali Theatre
Armaan Singh translates Prabal Kumar Basu’s essay on Commercial Bengali Theatre
Short Fiction
The Vulture
Tapan Mozumdar translates Hasan Azizul Huq’s short story, Shakun.