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untitled 22 Apr 2013 | 01:40 pm
and what would you have done different in the years you wish we could have had, had we met earlier? what would we have said and seen in that alternate universe, what would we have made of each other’s...
knowing 22 Apr 2013 | 01:33 pm
she insists she didn’t do it that she wasn’t there that she never even saw it. we who have played this game longer, know better. her small frame alight with fear and defiance her head shaking vigourou...
Never visiting the giant sequoias 22 Apr 2013 | 09:35 am
At some point the feet stop itching and the plans fade away The daydreaming stops; only the furniture is moved. The occasional picture is lingered over. But no longing tugs the heart, no sighs come fo...
my grandmother was born deaf 22 Feb 2013 | 07:45 pm
my grandmother was born deaf in a village where there wasn’t very much said. the women did not sing while working in the fields in the way every film on rural life would have us believe. they weren’t ...
untitled 14 Feb 2013 | 06:09 pm
how little there is to doin this love of oursso secure and so, well, nestled in the crook of middle-class suretywhose arms hold little surpriseand even less mystery. how banal our demonstrations,how b...
untitled 14 Feb 2013 | 05:19 pm
unexpectedly one afternoon your face tilted up the way it hasn’t done in years since last the light of unwrinkled skin gently rolled off the sheen of sweat on the nape of your now tilted neck. stretch...
untitled 13 Feb 2013 | 02:33 pm
trying to read your words on a moving train, going in and out of signal, losing a line here and a word there your prosaic prose made poetry, simply by letting me fill the gaps.
Kapila, by night 13 Feb 2013 | 02:15 pm
You lie there Darkly welcoming opaque, glistening I enter you with caution The piercing almost belies Your come hither waves And slowly, skin by skin I am within And realise how warm Your icy embrace ...
Deshaprema 10 Feb 2013 | 04:51 pm
None of these people have any deshaprema, she said shaking her head in disappointment after a discussion about some news. What does that have to do with it, I asked. What? These people don’t care abou...
River 22 Sep 2012 | 07:12 am
As we pass the blue and ochre striped house I remember the restaurant we ate in once on the highway outside Guwahati on our way to Tezpur on a hot afternoon when it should have been raining but it was...
