I Have Always Wanted To Have A Poem Written About Me
I Have Always Wanted To Have A Poem Written About Me like the way I write about my gorgeous friends, theirpresence lighting up my life like a neon sign board on a windyhighway with no other cars around. Perhaps it could havebeen about the way I always choose to sit by the windowin public buses […]
Jelly bowl in front of you — What will you have?
Jelly bowl in front of you — What will you have? Jelly bowl in front of you — What will you have? There are jellies in the bowl, shaped like eyes— blue, black, green, brown— veins detached, beckoning sirens of wonder and one’s left wondering – when do we become dead bodies floating in the clouds? […]
Rain and Coffee
Rain and Coffee As lightning crackled, Claudia drew the curtains apart. She stood before the long French windows of her penthouse apartment and looked down at a wet alley. The cobblestones of the boulevard shone in the falling rain of dismal clouds. It hadn’t rained for days. She yawned and then she stretched. Across the […]
The irony of male gaze in Oo Antava
The irony of male gaze in Oo Antava Gaze. The unblinking, uncompromising set of eyes that watch you at all times while you go about your daily business in public. The persistent eyes of the auto wale bhaiya stay less on the road ahead and more at your cleavage through the rear-view mirror. The gnawing stare […]
Songs of daughters
Songs of daughters I had always refused to believe in ghosts. Someday light would focus on the windows just enough to leave my mind in its place. That’s when I would stop wondering. Fixated to one little spot, one little thing, one little person. Her gaze. Mama. Or Maman. Mami, Amma, Eomma, Mutter, Mother. The […]
if a saccade was a love metaphor
if a saccade was a love metaphor you know how our eyesmove in quick successions—blind split seconds,in temporal illusions. you must be my temporal illusion. you must be, in my blindness,my brain’s best guess for what the world is like. Appears in — Debanjana Haldar debanjana is a student of life, pursuing surprise! […]
The Hall Of Mirrors: Reflections And Ruptures In “Bajirao Mastani”
The Hall of Mirrors: Reflections and Ruptures in “Bajirao Mastani” Mirrors play a significant role in Bajirao Mastani. When Mastani is informed that Bajirao is allegedly sick, she rushes to Shaniwar Wada to see him. They find each other in the Aina Mahal — i.e., the Hall of Mirrors — and passionately embrace. At this […]
Adorning in Solidarity
Adorning in Solidarity Back to contributors Priyam Priyam is an independent researcher and writer. She documents narratives of the Partition diaspora. She is a history buff who loves to read about South Asian history and culture. Her work is an attempt to find the umpteen stories around us, waiting to be told. Enjoyed the writing? […]
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