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FILM REVIEW || I Kissed a Girl (FRA, 2015)

Film: I kissed a Girl Written and Directed by Noémie Saglio, Maxime Govare Released in 2015 Language: French QUEER INVERSIONS Simple inversions often present a perspective that, in spite of retaining their inherent capacity to...

Fiction || NARCISSUS by Toti O’Brien

And of course the whole thing about vanity was an artifact. A cheap gossip or else a lame excuse. They all reveled in those bits and pieces of talk: so they vented the trouble...

Death of Ethics in Brave New World

The year was 1932 and Aldous Huxley, a British writer, released a futuristic novel entitled Brave New World. In it he describes a dictatorship that maintains supreme control over society through sinister means involving...

Protests in Birmingham

The Cursed Verses of Rushdie

THE BLUE BOOK The Blue Book is large. The distant red letters doesn’t escape your near-perfect eyesight as you clearly see the five words printed on its fat spine: Salman Rushdie – The Satanic...

Poetry || Three Poems by Kushal Poddar

Folding Objects into some other Objects Maker folds a paper house. Lantern. Birds. Soft moon-glow door. And I, callow in origami, fold my mind into a crumple. A child may find a form there,...

Fiction || MURGI-WALA MP by Urmi Masud

“Everyone eats chicken!”, thought murgi-wala, a chicken seller in a local bazaar somewhere in some distant city. He suddenly felt a light breeze balloon his lungi. As if the thought was more than just...