Chamber of Sodium by Rajendra Ojha (Nayan)
modernist satire from Nepal
modernist satire from Nepal
poem from Nepal
poems by Nabakumar Podder
All of the pieces are emotional snapshots, some just a moment long and others stretching on like a season. Kind of philosophical, but actually quite literal. Somewhere where grief and joy don’t have to be sugar coated but can just be messy and even complicated, yet weirdly beautiful.
Neighbors I know they think but I don’t know what. They know I drink but they don’t know why (neither do I). A rat lurks under their basement sink. My Babe She don’t care about the weather. She don’t care about the news. And when I watch the ballgame, she don’t care if my team […]Read Post ›
Candice Louisa Daquin review of Amrita Valan’s Arrivederci: The Journey Continues. Daquin writes, “Her candor and simple appreciation for all things. There is no pretention here, there are no clever self-conscious methods to gain traction. Just the simplicity of a writer’s life, laid bare.”
Poem on Pearl Harbour by Priyanka Banerjee
I wanna drink paint. Gallons of to-die-for lead base. Put color in the old GI. Experience room temperature good ice cream consistency. Taste a spike sledged through the throat, pin ya to the wall. I plan to drink till paint pupils orange pith white; skin gangrene early blackberry green. I wanna die from ochre, from […]Read Post ›
Title: A Box of Ticky-Tacky Author: Somdatta Goswami Published by Chitrangi ISBN: 9789385783531(Paperback) First edition: September, 2016 Price: INR 200/- Reviewed by Pranab Ghosh A Box of Ticky-Tacky authored by Somdatta Goswami and published by Chitrangi is an assorted collection of ten prose pieces that many may like to call short stories. The […]Read Post ›
She writes until her pen drags across the paper and words become a drug pulling her away to dream. She writes of love that grew beyond imagination, passion that carries her away as paint flows across a canvas. She writes of pain, grief, loss when a loved one dies, of watching tomatoes ripen in the […]Read Post ›