God Comes With a Hairdryer / Three Poems by Anandi Kar
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God Comes With a Hairdryer It's not too late to dust the leaves of the houseplants speckled with bits of chewed fingernails. Daughters...
Jan 26
A Speech for A Dictator / Three Poems by Ganesh Puthur
Three Poems by Ganesh Puthur (Recipient of Sahitya Akademi Yuva Puraskar in Malayalam language, 2023) A Speech for a Dictator One day I...
Jan 7
We're children born to untameable storms
Five Poems by Tamanna Bangthai Fa(r)there You were born some good sixty years ago and I came after. A sneak peek into those years and I...
Dec 26, 2023
If I were you and you were me, the impossible would happen
If I were you and you were me,
the impossible would happen,
I’d declare love-war for you and never return to this emptiness every night
Dec 23, 2023
History is asleep historically
Four Poems by Venkatesh Emani The Tragedy of War Israel Has Chosen At Last To Take A Shot At Turning Gaza Into A Parking Lot. Come, Let...
Dec 21, 2023
Murshidabadi Masons
Five Poems by Abu Siddik A Mother’s Monologue Yesterday, I gave birth to a girl, Faces around me were blackened, For they pinned hope on...
Dec 20, 2023
Three poems by Soumya Bandhu
Poems by Soumya Bandhu The White Goddess I woke up with Delhi December chill With the golden sun shining on my chest With my mind mended...
Dec 17, 2023
I'm just Melanin—Innocent, tranquil, harmless
Beyond cruelty lurking in mass approval
I'm just an heirloom,
Belonging to people of colour,
A skin cinnamon, a golden sheen
Oct 6, 2023
I can hear my name slipping into silence
Three poems by Syam Sudhakar Muziris 1 The one who knows the sea unlocks a sky in the heart. 2 The old town of the rough rains that you...
Sep 25, 2023
A state of emergency is a constancy in every woman's life
a state of emergency
is a constancy
in every woman's life
and I'm afraid I will never know
a normal day
Sep 20, 2023
Two poems by Ajay Koyimuttal
Kaudi, The blanket In her last years, Nani spent All her time stitching Kaudi. She did tens of them and gave Them away to her loved ones....
Sep 19, 2023
White has a curious knack of drawing out blood
Poems by Krutika Zambre Trigger Warning: Mention of violence, abuse White white Has a curious knack Of drawing out blood i. petite age...
Sep 17, 2023
Three Poems By Jahnavi Gogoi
A snake can detect an earthquake seventy-five miles away
and five days before it happens.
Sep 9, 2023
Three Poems by Mitra Samal
The bare walls of my room from which
I have stripped our pictures
want to make peace with me.
Sep 3, 2023
Three poems by Pradeep Saini
At times, I write an entire poem just to extract
that one single line pierced deep within my soul.
Sep 2, 2023
Three Poems by Moumita Bhattacharjee
The Ailing Poem Everyone who has read my poems Has at least once or many times asked me If something is wrong with me, my mind, life,...
Aug 29, 2023
Confessions of a Third Kind and other poems by Ramesh Dohan
Confessions of a Third Kind The birdcage has a doll In it and maybe that’s more appropriate It never cared for The wild black-eyed terror...
Aug 25, 2023
A Series of Poems On My Visit to Delhi by Moumita Alam
1 Chawri Bazaar, Delhi Delicious Mouth-watering street foods. Biryani in kilograms. Two teenage boys was dipping the perfectly rolled...
Aug 20, 2023
Roses aren't all that fun to be around, poems by Anusha Bhagwat
Little bursting words my mother tongue, the tongue of my mother the tongue of my father, the tongue of my child and the tongue of mine....
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