Kanpur, my Stockholm Syndrome by Adeeba Lari
I was fifteen when I first read about Stockholm syndrome an act where the hostage falls in love with the captor, and suddenly it all made...
- Nov 30, 2021
- 1 min
An ode to November by Shriti Chowdhary
Photograph by Vikrant Karande November dips jalebis in kheer And debates the origin of rosgollas With friends wearing saffron sweaters,...
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- Nov 22, 2021
- 2 min
Framing Food through the Kitchen Window by B Geetha
Art by Thor WIckstorm The acoustic textures of mustard seeds sputtering in hot oil, pressure cookers whistling like angry male members...
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- Nov 19, 2021
- 3 min
“Gulp it down. You’re a bloody man” by Anurag Mohanty
Source: The Guardian / International Men’s Day Poetry Dear men, When I was 6, a child that picked up a barbie to play with instead of a...
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- Oct 9, 2021
- 2 min
The Goddess of All Things by Aishwarya Roy
Courtesy : Sneha Mitra In Afghanistan, it has never been acceptable for women to write poetry on any subject. But to write to a lover has...
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- Oct 2, 2021
- 1 min
A kiss on the wrist by Shrutee Choudhary
on the night of our first encounter you gave me a kiss not on my cheeks or my hand or lips you kissed me on my wrist I frowned as you...
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- Oct 2, 2021
- 1 min
Ashes, ashes we all fall down by Khatija Khan
A still from the film Mirror by Andrei Tarkovsky surely, the earth is a wicked old woman who steals stainless steel bones to bury it...
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- Oct 2, 2021
- 2 min
Moss by Sara Sethia
Three women by Amrita Shergill There is moss making love in graveyards. Last night I showed up there with a bottle of old monk to speak...
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- Oct 2, 2021
- 2 min
The absence of a poem by Resham Sharma
Writer’s block: the absence of a poem The absence of a poem sticks in the underbelly of your fingers- fingers who don’t recognise each...
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- Oct 2, 2021
- 2 min
Journey of a Poem by Aishwarya Roy
Girl Reading, Vase of Flowers, 1922 – Henri Matisse My poem is lactose-intolerant. It’s a baker allergic to flour, A depressed comedian,...
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- Oct 2, 2021
- 1 min
We’re too soiled with the notion of love by Shriti Chowdhary
Fluidity IV by Shirley Novak There are caterpillars in my mother’s gajra crawling towards her ears while all she feels are my dad’s iron...
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- Sep 18, 2021
- 1 min
Laceration by Bhairavi Ponkshe
Absence of Sound by STACY DAGUIAR Ask my name and I’ll utter a thousand words that only sound like it. “Do what is necessary,” they say...
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- Sep 7, 2021
- 2 min
Troubled young boys grow up to be steadfast gentlemen by Mitra Visveswaran
Sad man by Prisac Nicolae Troubled young boys grow up to be stiff and steadfast gentlemen Wearing suits and ties and combing their hair...
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- Sep 7, 2021
- 2 min
People live longer in our grief than in our remembrance by Antara Verma
George Frederick Watts, Found Drowned, c. 1850, oil on canvas, Watts Gallery, Compton I am addicted to grief- It’s not that I can’t do...
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- Sep 7, 2021
- 3 min
Newspapers are a luxury in the hands of spectators by Resham Sharma
POSTCARDS / STEPHEN PUTNAM HUGHES AND EMILY ROSE STEVENSON The morning newspaper stretches its wearied arms between my fingers and...
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- Sep 7, 2021
- 2 min
Weighing a girl, a woman and a mother
Hiba Schahbaz’s Self Portrait / Weighing a girl Every day when the sun hides behind trees A girl rides past my house I look at her...
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- Sep 2, 2021
- 1 min
I am a gunshot wound
Girl Floating in Water by Ophelia i am a gunshot wound. two tablespoons of Rooh Afza does not calm me, it either lights me up like Wills...
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- Sep 2, 2021
- 2 min
In the landscape of tomorrow, God is an almost dead man
Displaced Afghani Children at a refugee camp in Kabul / Photograph by Haroon Sabawoon In the playgrounds of tomorrow, happiness bleeds...
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- Sep 2, 2021
- 3 min
Worshipping Poets by Simra Sadaf
La Muse by Pablo Picasso “Talk to me about the poem you wrote to pass the unbearable. Tell me why you prefer the second generation of...
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- Aug 3, 2021
- 2 min
The anatomy of a happy family
In my house, rooms are claimed in the name of things rather than people- sandook room, almirah room, AC room, mandir room- a steady...
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