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The Lesser Hevajra Tantra

The Doppler effectof your memory: afarand coming nearbyand going.In the alleysof your bodyI search for your name.To petrify itin the intersticesof my ...

By Ashwin Kumar

South Asian Summer

Tropical summers in South Asia are modest, conservative, hard-working, and, for most of the hours, frustrated.

By Anushri Muthusamy
South Asian Summer

Uppa’s home

Uppa’s home was the definition of what makes a house, home. It was my mother’s house where we as kids spent days and nights together; when being toget...

By Suhana Shajahan
Uppa’s home

Reparation to Mother - Three Poems by Vinita Agrawal

Reparation to Mother Mother, I’ve come to erase the ink of your loneliness, pooling in corners no coffee could warm. I’ve come to...

By Vinita Agrawal
Reparation to Mother - Three Poems by Vinita Agrawal

The Home I can't reach — Three Poems by Reya Raffi

On a quiet August noon, I left your warming daylight to the monsoon of the state that birthed me, here

By Reya Raffi
The Home I can't reach — Three Poems by Reya Raffi

A Sketch from a Ghost Town — Poems by Laila Brahmbhatt

A Sketch from a Ghost Town   Soldiers’ hands knead bread, milk cows in the fresh meadow beside their barracks. Across the border, a child...

By Laila Brahmbhatt
A Sketch from a Ghost Town — Poems by Laila Brahmbhatt

Bastar Art- The Patrimony of Tribal Craftsmanship

Bastar Wooden Handmade Art (reflecting local mythology, rituals and folklore in exquisite shapes and forms) Bastar, a district in the...

By Resham Sharma
Bastar Art- The Patrimony of Tribal Craftsmanship

Remembering a Revolution, Meena Kandasamy

Meena Kandasamy’s pen doesn’t wear a veil of decorum as it inks The Gypsy Goddess. She doesn’t have time for it. She has to tell a story.

By Aishwarya Roy
Remembering a Revolution, Meena Kandasamy

Parenthetical Womanhood: Three Poems by Sakshi Nain Bishnoi

I was in the waiting room my legs were almost straight. Criminal Hopes A vaguely repulsive mystery A decisive site of history The eel of my consciousness slipped.

By Sakshi Nain Bishnoi
Parenthetical Womanhood: Three Poems by Sakshi Nain Bishnoi

The Magic of Wes Anderson Movies - Beyond Pastels and Symmetry

Step into the whimsical charm of Wes Anderson movies, where retro vibes meet heartfelt storytelling.

By Shailja Bahety
The Magic of Wes Anderson Movies - Beyond Pastels and Symmetry

A Love-Letter to Our Cities

I have always been fascinated with the idea of space and identity relationship — how space and place can affect the formation of one’s self,...

By Aishwarya Roy
A Love-Letter to Our Cities

The Painted Poems of William Blake, and an Era of Changing Colours

With the publication of lyrical ballads, the Romantic movement started in England. It was a period of transition and experiment. Through...

By Aishwarya Roy
The Painted Poems of William Blake, and an Era of Changing Colours