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Indian Review | Author Profile | Lora Tomas is an indologist, writer, translator and editor from Croatia, currently living and working in Bangalore. In the past, She has worked as English and Hindi teacher, and Hindi advisor and translator for Croatian Television. She has also co-edited and translated into Croatian a selection of contemporary Indian women writing Popodnevni pljuskovi (Afternoon Showers), published by the VBZ Publishing House, Zagreb, 2011, and have contributed travelogues, interviews, and other articles for Croatian, Indian and Asian publications, and web portals such as Him?l, Fountain Ink, Goa Herald, Jet Wings, and H-Alter.
This afternoon I wrote down:
“I want to observe the gradual
Decrease of the angle at which light
Grabs hold of the wild vine on the façade
Of our house in Carmen.”
The Old City slips into dusk.
Lit squares … [Read the rest...] “Smoking a Cigarette at the Window of Our House in Carmen | Lora Tomas”
We were walking
Through Calcutta today,
And halted in front of Tagore’s house –
Its gates were closed for Durga puja.
The guards let us take a peak over the fence:
The place really is an oasis of greenery and … [Read the rest...] “At Tagore’s Gates | Lora Tomas”
Over chicken sausages and green martini
In a hipster neighbourhood of New Delhi
You are talking about traveling –
Hopping on and off
Trains
Buses
Rickshaws
Ferries
Looking for a cause to call your own
Give it all your best… [Read the rest...] “My Lord Byron | Lora Tomas”
I think it flashed nacre today
On Minotaur’s skin
Framed in glass
Displayed
On the third floor
Of the Museum of Modern Art in Dubrovnik.
In that early afternoon
Coated with boiling tarmac
And cooled by the sight of bathers … [Read the rest...] “Pearl Extract | Lora Tomas”
I
Crammed on a ferry across the Hooghly:
Durga’s madness whirls vortices of red
Along the shores. When the ferry docks,
Another river, faster and more dangerous,
Forms and surges through the openings
In both directions.
We drown while gasping … [Read the rest...] “Ferry Crossing | Lora Tomas”