Could Watching Anais Nin Land Me In Jail ?
An orgy of four naked bodies – the beautiful pair of nude buttocks belong to Maria de Madeiros: the charming actress who plays Anais Nin. The seductive way she pronounces Aa-na-iis. She is in bed with Henry – isn’t he June’s husband? Anais is jealous: He has someone who drives him to pain and chaos. […]
The Brain
The Brain is the perfect machine, my friend relayed. When I think back to childhood and its organs, love is always trembling, or I am. Filled with dreams of an angel just as it moves too far to know its hand is a hand. The loss of focus has cost you the truth. The brain […]
Beyond Metro Limits
I beg your forgiveness, I did it only because I was coerced to and though you make this seem like betrayal, I would still consider us friends would you still condemn my transgression when you see that the closest in Patel Nagar is a piece of shit, a dilapidated hag whose doors you enter […]
# Binary or Beyond
Aalok Thakkar is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Ashoka University where he works on formal logic and the foundations of computing. He is an exponent of the ghazal form in English. Read More
Fitoor 101_Live| The Promise of a Lie | Desire is a Cropped Being
A Collection by Swaja/ Saransh Fitoor 101_Live The Promise of a Lie Desire is a Cropped Being Fitoor 101_Live I stare at the grayImpervious,Solid,Like a familiar yet unyielding milestone on a highway.You have crossed paths.But is it the one that you had stopped by that night?After being drunk on lights,Traveling a few milesyou halted.‘fitoor_101’So curious […]
Chal Chitr: Ek Chann-Channata Safarnama¹
Pehla Padav ² Concentric circles stare at me, from the pits of venerated hollowness of the camera lens. I run from shutter clicks that construct my waist and hips with an authoritarian yearning of personified perfections, a delusion inherited in the trauma-bonded culture of the colonizer’s tricks. Dusra Padav Chalte Chalte ³ I […]
Breaking Stories on 30.07.2023
Breaking Stories on 30.07.2023 by Garfield D’Souza Breaking Stories on 30.07.2023 The globe has warmed itself into a boil. People have died in a flood that draped its saree into a tunnel. A war somewhere in the West is wearing the sack cloth of the wheat it drowned into its pit. More than […]
Mushq-E-Hawas
Mushq-E-Hawas by Umesh Gautam Mushq-E-Hawas Naam ishq hai meraa tamaam ishq hai meraa merii kauvvat ko darakinaar karne vaalon lowṭkar phir aaoge anjaam ishq hai meraa yuun gamz kaa honaa laazamii hai vakt lagtaa hai ye khaamiyaan libaas hai meraa magar paak to tum bhii nahiin mushq-e-havas kii talaash men ho to mere vajuud se […]
Tapestry/ Telltale
A Collection by Carol D’Souza Tapestry Telltale Tapestry For some, history is only a cleaver that makes mincemeat on repeat Decidedly, less of the grand and more of the deadbeat. Nevertheless, what is seen to survive is a cured package of processed parcel to be served salted and spiced in the flavour favoured by the […]
Lord of the Dance
Lord of the Dance Balancing on one leg with my hands outstretchedLike a clumsy cane in flightSteadying slowly I caress the delicate balance of the Nataraja Yogic poseIn my dreams, a unicorn ambling on the mountainside inspiredMe to the fluid rhythms of this numberWhich opens my arms to the spaciousness of the windAnd roots my […]
