By: Pavithra Joseph Pretty, frilly dresses, unsuited to trees and skinned knees; perfect, though, with stilts for shoes that cramp toes, and that wind-swept Munroe-esque pose. We learn young to confuse discomfort with comfort

By: Pavithra Joseph She’s not a c***, not a cuss word, or a b a t t e r r e d suitcase of disembodied. unclaimed. parts. She’s as complete, and incomplete, as human as you.

By: Pavithra Joseph They stood across each other packed into a train carriage; separated by others, unspeaking, looking out, or into their digital lives. He looked at her, letting the veil drop- so she saw him undress her in technicolor, in…

By: Hardeep Sabharwal All those legend of your liveliness and courage, entered in my bones as ants, forming an ant hill, like a newly wedded girl’s Bangle’s lyrics, chanting day and night, I don’t understand, There must be some other…

By: Hardeep Sabharwal. This year I met a guy In the same old mirror Who boasted of becoming Imago from larva Showing wings of flight Same footpaths and same sleepers Just with a curious new smile And a vision which…

By: Ayad Gharbawi Goodbye Tears of life A farewell Beckons So I’ll say My words Of today While sincerely Despising My yesterdays For my structure And spelling Were so wrong; So often Did I only Listen To words I spoke. ~

By: Ayad Gharbawi For my love I needed A bone To discover My ancient smile.

By: Ayad Gharbawi Soul I Love Candle Flickers; And Night Tender Yawns. Life’s Loves! Meanings Recede; And Elegance I Hear Weeps.

By: Jibanananda Das Translated by: Kousik Adhikari Passion surges in my heart, Those clouds like the mountains When brings you with them In midnight or in last night’s sky- Whom that one dead world leaves tonight; Torn white clouds have departed in…

By: Jayanthi Venugopal I feel the shimmers of the soft white Sun, the fresh moist of the morning dew, the gentle lapping of ocean waters and my own anxiety to set sail on the deep blue sea. I hear the morning…