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Poetry, fiction, essays, and reviews that take the home seriously as a political site — exploring labour, loyalty, and what care really asks of us.

Care, Kinship & Domestic Worlds

Natasha Ramarathnam
September 26, 2026

Dolly Parton, 1946- 2026, Singer-songwriter and actressGloria Steinem, 1934- 2026, Journalist and social activistThe world lost......

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Aditi Dasgupta
August 29, 2026

Like any other translator or a reader, I read translations all the time, but of all......

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Aditi Dasgupta
August 29, 2026

Mitra Samal’s Silence Has A Sound is a home to a warm collection of poems that......

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Aditi Dasgupta
August 27, 2026

I picked Vir Das’s The Outsider: A Memoir for Misfits carrying two very different preoccupations: I......

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Aditi Dasgupta
August 26, 2026

Mirza’s Sea, Salt & Spice: A History of Mumbai Through Food is a necessary compilation of......

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Sayani Sarkar
August 26, 2026

SS: Today I am in conversation with writer, poet, and professor Abrona Lee Pandi Aden to......

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Usawa Editorial Team
July 29, 2026

unseen whistleof a pressure cooker lifts shrieking parrotsoff the neighbouringmango tree. summer airscattering green....

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Usawa Editorial Team
July 29, 2026

distanttrees. loud that far call –not birdbut squirrel. that—the late-risingkoel in the greencrownof twin bungalows....

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Priya Sarukkai Chabria
July 29, 2026

birdcalls in theneck of palingair betweenbuildings. song knotsin the silence beforenoise fromparking lots climbsinvisible stepsto terraces....

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Amita Arya
July 29, 2026

It was past 11 pm at the airport. I had 5-year-old Kabir with me — tired,......

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Gopal
July 28, 2026

Visual Narrative City of Shopkeepers: Mumbai’s Original Gig Workers Photographs from Dadar’s early morning flower market,......

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Apabrita Mitra Sarkar
July 25, 2026

You were where the fennel seed was.Caught in my gums.Sharp and tricky, I curled my tongue......

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Prarthana Manoj
July 23, 2026

P: In your novel Valli, you have used the Paniya language, a language with no scripts.......

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