Poems: The Bombay Trilogy
By Akanksha
That night, I kissed the city
with as much ardor as I did
the boy in the white shirt
inside a black and yellow box
moving somewhere.
Three Poems by Pooja Ugrani
By Pooja Ugrani
I can draw a C on your bum
when you stand sideways.
It was after you said this
that I started using
three limp layers
to drown a C of flesh.
Two Poems by Aneek Chatterjee
By Aneek Chatterjee
This is the rule of the game.
Spectators sit in the dark, here
The playing field is dark.
Positions alter now and then
A spectator changes
into a player any time,
and vice versa
Two Poems by Sabyasachi Nag
By Sabyasachi Nag
I fear, you too might die Akbari, all of eighty-five,
tied to the steel bed and forced to choke in this fire
someone else started, somewhere else;
or like Ankit Sharma, first beaten, then shot,
facing the gutter, by the house you were born;
Two Poems By Prithvijeet Sinha
By Prithvijeet Sinha
This is his town,
with backyards of open-ended youth and trampolines next to pools.
Four Poems
By Goirick B
Silence won’t answer, will leave it to us.
For reasons, like lovers, must now disappear.
Mind floats, an empty boat, stories, grass;
Breathing out some of this coldness we fear.
Four Poems
By Kashiana Singh
The arrows of your eyes pierce into a fog
You conquer hysteria with textured words
in flags of fingers festooned into poems
Book Review: L.S. Rathore’s ‘Romance Over Coffee’
By Nishi Pulugurtha
Rathore’s poetry draws on the everyday, to emotions and feelings that are real and perceptive, to literature, history and Indian myths and stories that have to do chiefly with love. This collection, his first volume of poems, records impressions and facets of lived everyday moments.
Three Poems on Kashmir
By Ishrat Bashir
That their great-grand uncle was
pecked at by vultures, unattended!
That the people of their mother were
Buried live in the waters of Keta Kol.
Poem: We are here to stay forever
By Mujeeb Jaihoon
You flatter the visiting guests at the Mahal
And feast on the biryani, kababs and jamuns
You flex your patriotic muscles at the Fort
And reign in the city that the Sultans built
Three Poems on Fascism
By Sabyasachi Nag
Because a Fascist can be weird –
He can’t stay still and almost always falls
Even to the slightest breeze.
Book Review: Gopal Lahiri’s ‘Return to Solitude: haiku and other short poems’
By Nishi Pulugurtha
Gopal Lahiri’s Return to Solitude: haiku and other short poems, published by Hawakal Publishers, is a slim volume of poetry written in genres not very often used in India. A bilingual poet who has authored seven collections of poems in English and Bengali, editor, critic and translator, Lahiri has also written short stories.
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