Cover art: Marian Luniv "Reflection" 2020, courtesy of Ukrainian painters' exhibit in Padua Balloon Consider the balloon: a two-ply, circular...

Cover art: Olga Gritsenko "Trees over water" 2021, courtesy of Ukrainian painters' exhibit in Padua I breathe:my nostrils but plates...

IT WAS ONLY YESTERDAY WHEN THE LAST GIRL, MARYAM, TOOK her turn with paracetamols and cheap alcohol. A few weeks...

Cover art: Igor Prokafev "Donetsk airport" 2013, courtesy of Ukrainian painters' exhibit in Padua 2 a.m. These darknesses that awaken...

* * *   Reading signs in the leaves, reading signs in the grass, Reading signs in the footsteps where...

LANGA SARAKIKYA FLOAT I’d wake up at night wondering if The mildness brewing would turn into a fight Never asking...

  Bow/ Bhuk   Parimal Bhattacharya   “I think man's most treasured possession is memory. It is a kind of...

  FICTION HAS ALWAYS BEEN THE PLACE WHERE ‘FORBIDDEN’ subjects are explored, and writers have dared to probe various aspects...

WHEN I WAS ASKED TO MAKE MENSTRUAL ART FOR THIS BOOK, ‘Aadya Shakti’ had been on my mind for several...