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Neighbour
A lighthearted reflection on a young girl’s first experience with romantic feelings — feelings she harbours for her neighbour and her brother’s best friend
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Jocasta’s Son
In the early years of our marriage, I would often tease Shravan, call him a mama’s boy, and he would laugh and retort with, “that was before our marriage.” Implying he was all mine now.
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To Those Who Walk Away and other poems
When you walk away / you become / ineluctably long, / like the longing, shadowing / the heart only to dissipate and merge, become / one / with the setting sun, throwing up dark.
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Essentia Home’s new Experience Center in Gurugram redefines modern living
Located in Sector 34, Essentia Home’s newly opened Gurugram Experience Center sets a new standard for luxury, showcasing innovative design and Indian craftsmanship in a stunning 25,000-square-ft space
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Vintage Father: A Doorway to His Heart — Kavita Ezekiel Mendonca on Nissim Ezekiel
Kavita Ezekiel Mendonca reflects on the life and legacy of her father, Nissim Ezekiel, the Father of post-colonial Indian writing in English, an unworldly man deeply devoted to poetry and teaching, who lived simply, with minimal needs, but had a generous heart, giving freely to others
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Earth Stride and other poems by Anu Majumdar
Everything waits/in the shelter of the heart, / Prayers shaking / through wild thoroughfares — / utterly bereft, / yet fragrant.
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Gaza Poems and Aphorisms by Yahia Lababidi
A martyr is a witness / who testifies and gives evidence / only in a Higher Court / They must suffer death / because otherworldly truth / requires sacrifice of this life.
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Holding Your Hands and other poems
In the glow of your smiling eyes. / We will both leisurely row the boat, / And once the night bends into dawn / And into its seamless echo of purity
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The Song of Razia Sultana and other poems
Alone and weary among the glitz of stars, / Stars so noble! yet none for me. / I sit alone in my obscure nook / And covet the moths so blithe and glee.
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Drowning in Diet Malts with Druig and other poems
In the desert, / in the midday time, / he would meet me at the celestial soda counter on Tuesdays, / wearing bovver boots and a leather choker studded with sardonyx / — the exosuit of a peregrine.
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Echoes in the Hallway
Taking a long hard look at Roma, I exited the freezing living room, into the cocooning hallway and out onto the driveway, leaving the idyllic mansion behind. Forever.
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Addressed To Lord Curzon
This translation of a satirical piece by Bal Mukund Gupt offers a sharp critique of colonial administration through the allegory of a young boy’s dream
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