Freedom from Rush Hour by Sushant Thapa
poem 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 ›