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Beautiful | Shubhangi Bajpayee

March 4, 2022

Not a collective
It is personal
Beautiful is
Not a qualification
Not a rank
Beautiful is a feeling
Not a judgment
A poem
And not a test
Is a practice,
Beautiful
is love.

But tell me

How to be?

Who … [Read the rest...] “Beautiful | Shubhangi Bajpayee”

Parakeets in My City | Etti Kotnala

March 2, 2022

Only a pair of parakeets
Know how to love in my city
My city, of a million hearts
Pumping blood at high pressure
Charred lungs, Slick tongues
Only a pair, entangled, still, share
Breaths full of sanctity
In my city.… [Read the rest...] “Parakeets in My City | Etti Kotnala”

A Foot Away | Yukti Narang

March 2, 2022

Paperback, an identity card, wish washed to the point
of renewal or retirement, it goes with the farmer
collecting weight, numbers, of raw potatoes, yields of
foreign fields,
the mud of lands a foot away, distant, beyond reach, the
barbed … [Read the rest...] “A Foot Away | Yukti Narang”

I Often | Rachit Sharma

February 28, 2022

Full disclosure: I often borrow words and phrases grander than my imaginations
to use for our letters,
I often mark old memories and place you in them,
I often, and painfully, stare at the unread book at my side table,… [Read the rest...] “I Often | Rachit Sharma”

Poverty Poisons My Beauty | Ujjal Mandal

February 25, 2022

Poverty doesn’t tell a poem of happiness
but of the hungry vultures awaiting the dead body,
I am hungry.

Poorness is the shadow of mine, it follows me where I go,
it poisons my beauty; it is the stone on … [Read the rest...] “Poverty Poisons My Beauty | Ujjal Mandal”

Language | Moumita Sinha

February 23, 2022

I was born and raised in Kolkata, in earnest
I don’t remember the first word I spoke, but I can guess
It was my parents’ language
Their stories and their songs.
It was the language by which I came to … [Read the rest...] “Language | Moumita Sinha”

A letter to myself | Namrata Narendra

February 22, 2022

Spread even, your flesh against the gnarled roots-
push against the carmine walls that caress you;
you will learn to outgrow them.
Drape around the trunk until one can’t tell
[Read the rest...] “A letter to myself | Namrata Narendra”

City couplets | Namrata Narendra

February 22, 2022

My feet are playing catchup with my senses,
Upar neeche, aage peeche.

Sounds draw me in,
sights and smells, I drown in
[Read the rest...] “City couplets | Namrata Narendra”

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Selections…

The Noose | Naresh Kumar

Thambi | Jeyamohan

Educating Manju | Richard Rose

Water Wars | Priyanka Mathur

Water Wars | Priyanka Mathur

Corporate Ladder | Swapnil Bhatnagar

Translated Poems

Murder | Subodh Sarkar

Bribe | Subodh Sarkar

Tumi Robe Nirobe | Rabindranath Tagore – A Translation

Nothing new | Irsa Ruçi

Timeless…| Irsa Ruçi

Continuity | Irsa Ruçi

Translated Fiction

The Scape-goat | Indraganti Narasimha Murthy

Scape-Goat | Indraganti Narasimha Murthy

“Hello Mr. Murty …” phoned in Sadanandam, the General Manager of ABC bank. “We have reviewed the … [Read More...]

Gratitude | Dr. Veluri Rama Rao (translation)

Gratitude | Bhagavatula Venkata Radhakrishna

If ever you go to Laxmipuram and ask for the house of Veera Venkata Satyanarayana garu, nobody will … [Read More...]

Being and Nothingness | Rabeea Mahmood Rabeea

Being and Nothingness | Rabeea Mahmood Rabeea

Sir, I assure you and I repeat it for ten times: "I am not MAD" … "Though I am not looking in a … [Read More...]

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