Ambai—pseudonym for CS Lakshmi—an accomplished Tamil writer, and the only one to be included in the......

I was introduced to the doctrine of ‘Vasudhaiv Kutumbakam’ very early in my life...

I am your melted snowman, dropsfrom a baby’s bath, the first rainof the monsoon, a sacred......

On the evening of the day when a family of kingfishers pecked out our eyes –......

beg, bhindi. sing for light and water.first the sun’s laughter arrested at the building’s edgelike a......

The heart still longs to reach distant landsTo reminisce about momentsIn sepia-tinted photographs –Dappled in sunlight.To......

To Sridala Swami and Winter 2014–15 She says yesterday’s faded-denim skyof many washesbrought down leaves thatwere......

You flame of the forestI urge you to engulf againin a bhikshu rapture, fillingfulfilling my barren......

I – A City without Cats There were no cats in the city I was born......

The children of the poor point finger guns at the sky,chasing fighter jets barefooted,across a barren......