By: Ram Govardhan A year before Emperor Ghiyasuddin of Sultanate of Delhi commanded his son and Chief General Muhammad bin Tughluq, then known as Ulugh Khan, to steer the imperial forces to […]
Tughluq’s Sultanpur in Dandakaranya
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Poem: Nowhere, Man
By: Derek Harmening On the last day of my twenties A soft snow fell. Quietly, almost apologetically, As though embarrassed at having burdened us all With the memory Of winter. It hugged […]
Poem: Multi-faceted
By: Monika Reddy If she is beautiful, she got corrupted. If she is ugly, she is a bitch. If she is lean, not more than a broom stick. If she is stout, […]
Poem: We Better Start Now
By: Mark Kodama We may believe but do not know If God is Christian, Muslim or Jew, Or if He exists only in our minds. Given the paucity of our knowledge, Why […]
‘A dime’ and other poems by Milt Montague
By: Milt Montague A Dime When I was a young lad Ten cents had some valueA dime could buy a cup of joe And a doughnut or two […]
Skin not sweater, ontology or epistemology? [7+]
By: Gerard Sarnat Kafka Joylessly Metamorphed “Oy, you know the very best predictor of your future is the past,” pontificated the pachyderm matriarch gazing at her trunk in a pond. Hugely wrong, […]
Howdy Neighbor!
By: Alan Berger We met on line, not online. We were waiting in our cars to get into the garage in the building we both live in, and the car in front […]
Poems: ‘Meeting’ n ‘Eye’
By: Aakriti Kuntal Meeting What is it there? There– on that eloping side of the lip? where the rivers seem to be conspiring and a puddle exists in patience, awaiting its arrival […]
The time the doorknob broke
By Austin J. Dalton By 5PM, New Year’s Eve fireworks were already driving the dogs in the neighborhood insane. As often happens when he had time to himself, Johnny gradually found himself […]
Lobotomy
By: Michal Reibenbach I noticed a school girlfriend of mine was walking behind her parents on the other side of the road to us. Her head was wrapped up in an enormous […]
