Word from the Streets captures Richard Rose’s experience of Bangalore through his many visits.
The Sukshma Series is a first-hand account of an educated woman of post-colonial India reflecting on how the social and political set-up of the country defined the status of an Indian woman.
The buzzing in my ears seemed to come from a long way off. Feeling distinctly alarmed I stuck my forefingers deep into my ears, closed…
Nakul sat straight in a vest with two holes in it and old pajamas. He didn’t make eye contact with his wife Tarla who was…
Words leap over words Trounce each other Silence survives. Time runs over time Flatten each other Memory survives. Pages pile over pages Bury each other…
There is a sunflower erupting through the simian crease of my right palm. I shed layer after layer of salty skin till the petals glow…
Some trees are male, some female; Our house had four of them, And though I circled them every day as a kid— Looking for any…
1. A man reads the newspaper as if his son would turn up on page three. The chaiwallah makes a cutting, not because a half…
As far as I can see, the trees brown beneath fall’s frost. Mother’s skin is marred by age spots as death’s knell calls frost. Forests…
Hi. My name is Abdul. Abdul Sheikh. I work at a cyber café not very far from where I live. But don’t bother. Not very…