It’s Nanjangud Annu visits raves about as she usually does about old temples the older the monument the more the raving so long as they are well preserved like the famed pickles. I too visited this...
My knowledge of numbers diminished on arrival in England, then the United States. At home in Ceylon I used to bathe in lakhs and crores. No number seemed too grand except for the infinite. But in the West I...
The Ring Road was certainly spooky at night, illuminated by yellow neon lights, the cold, sandy winds blowing in from the Yamuna against the darkened Red Fort, howling in the night.
Under merciless sun at a crowded corner where city streets crisscross four banjara boys beg and brawl. Alien tongue, lively limbs, almost naked, gilded with soot and dust, eyesore to the passers-by, like...
Cartoonist Ali Dorani fled Iran at the age of 21 before being trapped in Australia’s controversial Manus Island detention camp for four years. Things changed after his artwork was posted online. This is...
Friend When I saw us down a street of shadows hand in hand I made my own story With you I can make stories by dozens Of lost loves violets and pomegranates and unsung poems With you I can float my paperboat of...
Fiction writing in Telugu started in the later part of 19th century with Rajasekhara Charitamu by Kandukuri Veeresalingam, a well-known social reformer of the day. Short-story writing gathered momentum in the...
Hide and seek I don’t hate the game though, of course, I don’t. I remember exploring new places where no one could find me, Running out of new places to hide. I recollect this weird fear in me of...
You sleep alone, Vary of each breath you take, You look around to see hundreds, Like you, Alone and awake, Scared to fall asleep or stay awake, You are not alone, Encumbered by cries and woes, You want to be alone, Not...
After days of procastination, Akshaya finally decided to get a stack of her photocopies framed up. Couple of weeks back she plunged into the “OPERATION DECLUTTER” of her home which was then, these long...
And then, to my horror, baleful gaze began eating the lady’s pink hair, with the lady completely oblivious to what went on in the world behind her. Baleful gaze chewed and chewed, glaring at me triumphantly, daring me...
Cries everywhere, then laughter. before we’ve had time to understand i heave my body on your knees, play at prayer while you sleep. your screams, your purulent screams infect my nights. before we look the other in the...
I got some union blowback for posting Bukowski’s blather about poetry readings. I thought he joked and given the ravages of the oft-mentioned C that we needed to laugh. But not all of us. Some cried foul...
Manoj Das (1934), the legend is no more. With his unique distinction as an outstanding writer, bilingual, of international repute, Das has been regarded as a thinker, a spiritual seeker and an extraordinary speaker...
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