Editor's Picks
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Baba Crows And Black Smoke
Body and Soul; excerpts from the Bhagavad Gita
Another Day Has Passed And Two Other Poems
Memory & Time
A curated collection
Another Day Has Passed And Two Other Poems
Unlocking raw memory, this lyrical collection unflinchingly confronts patriarchal trauma, articulating deep distrust and grief from the fractured heart of...
Body and Soul; excerpts from the Bhagavad Gita
Encounters with ancient verses, a body is not a soul. Instead, it—something else— resides within. A felt form, a haunting...
Excerpt: The Seven Queens: Sindhi Folktales Retold in English Verse
Sindhi verses echo, tales of seven queens. A king's heart chooses Noori, humble fisherwoman. Jealousy hisses, love whispers by Keenjhar...
Excerpt: The Yogini by Sangeeta Bandyopadhyay
Calcutta night. A hermit's gaze pierces through restaurant light. Empress? a voice whispers. Fear coils. Tongs click. Fate arrives, obscene,...
Her by Rashid Jahan
A woman, marred and shunned, brings flowers daily. Teachers whisper, disgusted by the gifts and her marred face. Come, sit,...
In my mother’s tongue
Dusty love flickers; a memory carried on Bordoisila winds in Assam. Mother's voice echoes, poetry unbound in lockdown's shelter. English...
Leellann’s Story
A door's crunch echoes, scattering rats. Cold seeps in with dim light. Whispers of the dead are preferable to circling...
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Kamina (Rascal) (کمینہ)
He irritated the residents with his broken English, his loud shirts, his ease with everyone in the building. A short...
The leaves, they wail all night & Other Poems
Poems, in Hindi and English, that move between an indictment of men who never learned to read a woman's heart...
Had You Changed the Killer’s Name
At a rural pension counter, three widows from the same family, bound by tragedy but divided by caste, wait in...
Translating Faiz: At the Still Point of the Turning Circle
A new English translation of Faiz Ahmed Faiz's Intesaab, one of Urdu literature's most enduring poems of dedication and dissent....