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Work carried into English from Hindi, Urdu, Bangla, Sindhi, Italian, Marathi, and Adivasi languages. Translation here is literary politics.
Work carried into English from Hindi, Urdu, Bangla, Sindhi, Italian, Marathi, and Adivasi languages. Translation here is literary politics.
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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
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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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And Just Like That
A woman reflects on menopause, the silence around it, and the girl still living in her ageing body.
Excerpt : The Quartet of Colors
The narrative portrays a family's morning violently disrupted by bomb blasts, culminating in a local vendor's death and their varied,...
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....
Kamina (Rascal) (کمینہ)
He irritated the residents with his broken English, his loud shirts, his ease with everyone in the building. A short...
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Excerpt : The Quartet of Colors
The narrative portrays a family's morning violently disrupted by bomb blasts, culminating in a local vendor's death and their varied,...
And Just Like That
A woman reflects on menopause, the silence around it, and the girl still living in her ageing body.
Kamina (Rascal) (کمینہ)
He irritated the residents with his broken English, his loud shirts, his ease with everyone in the building. A short...
