Women Talking: Rethinking Our Discourse on Sexual Violence
“It is possible that the men in prison are not guilty of attacks, but is it possible that the men are guilty of not stopping the attacks?...
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- Jul 2, 2023
To Bandage Achilles’ Emotional Wound
"Such is the way the Gods spin life For unfortunate mortals We live in pain, but they are strangers To care and to sorrow.” Readers of...
- May 29, 2023
Memory of the Future and other poems by Shelly Narang
Memory of the future Four pictures, now five of them This reckoning will never be still. Who is left here to catch the laughter, Flowing...
- May 20, 2023
Rooh Afza's Story of Mediocrity, Medicine and Mercy
Did you ever wonder about the journey of the scarlet red syrup that permanently sits in your kitchen and rules your heart in scorching...
- May 9, 2023
The Old Coffin-Seller and other poems by Abu Siddik
A Dark Little Figure Her eyes are the eyes of the old man Who is going to die right now. You can scratch and draw images on her skin,...
- May 7, 2023
Delving Deeper: A Call for Nuanced Film Criticism
Last month, on a Sunday morning, I was sipping on a cup of tea while reading 'Transcendental Style in Film,' a book by writer/director...
- May 5, 2023
Your love was sickeningly sour and other poems by Zinia Mitra
Your love was sickeningly sour
as you tinkled your long cocktail glasses
ice-cube cold, a slice of lemon
flavored my long skirt days
- Apr 30, 2023
NaPoWriMo'23 Day 19-20: What we cannot hear / Second thoughts before deleting a photograph
My phone scoffs like Amma,
Blinks twice disbelievingly-
Are you planning to let go?
You've aged 3 years,
It's a blurred one
- Apr 25, 2023
The Metaphor of The Banshees of Inisherin: Exploring the Irish History Through Fractured Friendship
Irish War of Independence was a period of gory, anarchy and tumult for Ireland. Many promising young leaders who could have brought glory...
- Apr 22, 2023
NaPoWriMo TTT x PoemsIndia : Explore the emotional Journey of Adulting
And just like that
In dreams & broken realities
We enter the threshold of adulthood
Waving childhood goodbye
Preserving the little child in
- Apr 22, 2023
The Final Smooch and other poems by Moumita Alam
algae have grown in open eyelids
the breasts have become the earth's timeclock
the quartz of their secretion has turned into
a moon on dark
- Apr 20, 2023
NaPoWriMo'23 Day 16/17: Neon Gods / I had a dream you won't understand even If I tell you
we keep bartering our faith in a mosque or a church when google shows 34,45,978 results for the word 'god'
- Apr 20, 2023
Waterworld and other poems by Arnab Bhattacharya
The fish,
Wandering about in the bluest depths
Of Earth, in wet heavens,
Unaware of the inevitable
End of the earth,
Arising out of furnac
- Apr 19, 2023
NaPoWriMo'23 Day Fourteen: Brief Heaven
what is it about mothers and the sad singularity of things they do for themselves? but i saw her laugh for the longest time and wipe
- Apr 18, 2023
NaPoWriMo'23 Day Thirteen: Meeting a poet outside their poems
i met a brilliant poet in an ordinary cafe
he writes poems on everything he ever loved;
but i can’t find a single one about him. so i write
- Apr 17, 2023
NaPoWriMo'23 TTT x PoemsIndia: Exploring the soul of your city through poetry
My Delhi fits me
like an oversized hoodie,
In its extremes of cold and heat,
we survive in solidarity
You will find balconies dripping with
- Apr 16, 2023
NaPoWriMo'23 Day Ten: Our silence lives in the bodies of others
The prompt is inspired by Ilya Kaminsky's Poem 'We lived happily during the War' The women in my family are without a home by Pritha Jain...
- Apr 16, 2023
NaPoWriMo'23 Day Nine: I have built speed breakers in my heart
love becomes a memory
in the blink of an eye.
so i have built speed breakers in my heart
for i want love to be slow with me.
i want love t
- Apr 14, 2023
NaPoWriMo'23 Day Eight: Haircut and Hair Coloring as a reset button
A Pixie Cut by Abshaar Saeed I sit in a radiant chamber with tube lights, many other lights some dull and some ephemeral like the...
- Apr 12, 2023
NaPoWriMo'23 Day Seven: Prayers walk in high heels
the prayers that remain unheard often go and bitch about god to the prayers that remain unanswered
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