CINEMA || Tumbbad
I am tempted to begin this piece by mentioning the brilliant, singular song penned by Raj Shekhar and arranged by the composer duo Ajay and Atul Gogavale. The lyrics speak of fortune and fear...
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OPINION || Poetry in Copenhagen and Elsewhere
It seems that God has chosen a few hundred, or at the very most a couple of thousand, in each nation for the buying of poetry. The genre is published in small print runs...
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EDITORIAL || Of Peripheries and the Centre
The heart of the city is often a picture of the chaos that makes our hearts the very last place where our lives seem to come to a still. It is only in the...
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POETRY || Scott Thomas Outlar
Swimming in the Blood and Water of Mars It’s one sip of solace for the suffering gulped etcetera ad infinitum that still doesn’t soothe black coal scar tissue sewn shut and captured in exhausted...
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ARTICLE || Hello, Dolly, Goodbye
Nearly everything about the musical comedy “Hello, Dolly” is legendary. It’s a nostalgic time capsule set to music, not only of the early 20th century but of Broadway’s golden era. And yet, it remains...
CINEMA || Tumbbad
I am tempted to begin this piece by mentioning the brilliant, singular song penned by Raj Shekhar and arranged by the composer duo Ajay and Atul Gogavale. The lyrics speak of fortune and fear...
OPINION || Poetry in Copenhagen and Elsewhere
It seems that God has chosen a few hundred, or at the very most a couple of thousand, in each nation for the buying of poetry. The genre is published in small print runs...
EDITORIAL || Of Peripheries and the Centre
The heart of the city is often a picture of the chaos that makes our hearts the very last place where our lives seem to come to a still. It is only in the...
POETRY || Scott Thomas Outlar
Swimming in the Blood and Water of Mars It’s one sip of solace for the suffering gulped etcetera ad infinitum that still doesn’t soothe black coal scar tissue sewn shut and captured in exhausted...
ARTICLE || Hello, Dolly, Goodbye
Nearly everything about the musical comedy “Hello, Dolly” is legendary. It’s a nostalgic time capsule set to music, not only of the early 20th century but of Broadway’s golden era. And yet, it remains...
DRAMA || If it were a different play, Would I be with you tomorrow?
CAST OF CHARACTERS NADYA wife ARTHUR husband PLAYWRIGHT beautiful blonde, this is her first play SETTING A middle class American kitchen, minimally represented: a kitchen table bare with only a flower vase...
EDITORIAL || Largest Democracy
Between the last time I wrote something for this column and the present, my nation has come perilously close to a war with her neighbour Pakistan. It all began with the tragic killing of...
POETRY & ART || Arathy Asok & Sabari
ARATHY ASOK currently teaches at Government Victoria College, Palakkad, Kerala, India. She has published poems in national and international journals and is currently working on a book of poems and short stories. SABARI...
POETRY || Jared Morningstar
Confessions of an Aging Teacher He held them in the palm of his hand. Lifting them higher above his head like Atlas, his knees buckled: knees that were older now, knees that were forced...
BOOK || A Necessary Evil by Abir Mukherjee
A Necessary Evil has an enterprising premise that promises a modern retelling of times past – an era when Maharajahs were not merely stuff of legends and the British still managing to keep the...
