YouTube Search

YouTube Search

I pressed “performance poetry” into YouTube’s search box kept company by a simplified magnifying glass on the right (in its own light-grey box): a type…

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Again

Again

Over coffee, you tell me that it settles in your lungs way better than in your stomach. You tell me about those long drives when…

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Black

Black

Black; The colour of my hair that you ran your fingers through And clutched and pulled back and Gasp; As our legs twirled under sheets…

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Guide to the Political Pirouette

Guide to the Political Pirouette

Practice pirouettes in a safe place Clear of any sharp tweets or leaked emails Know your retracted position before you start Keep your shoulders and…

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Meeting Salim

Meeting Salim

Squatted on the ledge of his hand-pulled rickshaw, a man with light grey hair, in a chequered lungi peered at me as I looked at…

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An interview with Shailaja Padindala

An interview with Shailaja Padindala

The short film ‘Memories of a Machine’ was screened on 15th Oct, 2016 at the Seattle South Asian Film Festival. Written and directed by Shailaja Padindala,…

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Mehnat and Mazdoori in Barcelona

Mehnat and Mazdoori in Barcelona

My husband and I are on our way from Madras to Paris. Chennai, actually. Calling the city Madras is more like responding to our pet…

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Overview

Overview

“every ecology depends on death” cotyledons green to their task of rising into trees, unruffled by captions in a town in India a driver races…

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Though Time

Though Time

Though your bones will turn to dust There is still time to love and lust Though your muscles soon will rot And memory will slip…

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Homecoming

Homecoming

“As a rock on the seashore he standeth firm, and the dashing of the sea waves disturbeth him not. He raises his head like a…

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The Tashka

The Tashka

It was made of aluminum, I suppose or some other metal. It was shiny and steel colored and had my father’s other name, the European…

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Diminishment

Diminishment

  “ there are two ways of getting home and one of them   is to stay there”  – G.K Chesterton   no more does…

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Who wants to play with my rainy day – a found poem

Who wants to play with my rainy day – a found poem

  my otherness sticks with me no matter where I go : never loan out your rainy day : how many bodies are we :…

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