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...
-Prospero and Faustus: When Shakespeare started writing,Christopher Marlowe was ruling the theatre. His “Dr.Faustus” was a huge success. That was the time Europe, under the Renaissance spirit, was expanding its...
-“The red plague rid you/For learning me your language!” (1.2) (Does Shakespeare mean Miranda failed in her job as a teacher, and that Caliban needs to be taught the...
Telugu: Challapalli Swarupa Rani Translated by: Alladi Uma and M.Sridhar Challapalli Swaroopa Rani is Professor of Mahayana Buddhist Studies at Acharya Nagarjuna University, Andhra Pradesh, India. She is a poet, short...
Rizio is a bilingual writer, teacher and editor. She has published three books of poetry as well as fiction and academic and critical writing. She is the founder of the thinkspace LILA Foundation for Translocal...
In ‘Bateshwar’s Contribution’, a short film by Sandip Ray I recently watched, Bateshwar Sikdar, a veteran writer, suddenly finds himself in the company of visitors and advice – both unsolicited. Over the course of three...
“No one is quite so informal, so spontaneous, so fluent, so fresh, so breezy and so salty as Shouri Daniels in The Salt Doll.” Saul Bellow’s insightful comment, quoted on the cover of the novel, about the spontaneity of...
Sridhar M
Indran Amirthanayagam
Deepra Dandekar
Abu Siddik
Nabanita Sengupta
Murali Cartoonist
Naina Dey
Syamala Kallury
Medha Sreeya
Radhakrishna Murthy, Suraparaju
Alladi Uma/M.Sridhar
Rizio B. Yohannan
Bhaswati Ghosh
Sukrita Paul Kumar