Issue 6: Summer 2015
Fiction |
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Swimming at Midnight
Adjusting to calling myself blind was like adjusting to calling myself a wife, or a mother. It changes how people see you – how you see yourself.
Hands Held To His Eyes
I entered one of the conference rooms to find everyone huddled around a radio. Indira Gandhi: shot. Shot. The word in English is more onomatopoeic than we realize.
Poetry |
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Back home
She asked me not to sit
Not to touch anything
Or even be touched
Baffle Roof
The pastels used to coat windowed
Barriers against the chill of Rajasthan’s
November—-another strain of roof.
Brink
Closed eyes dusted with ash
Charcoal and red it clings to the skin
Ebony, brown or white?
Essays & Interviews |
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Love Language
Balancing on the tricky tightrope between “Indian” and “American” already felt hard enough without throwing language into the mix. I occupied this space of linguistic liminality, neither feeling completely bilingual nor completely monolingual.
Summer Pervez In Conversation with Olivier LaFont
Acting and writing fulfill two distinct needs in me. I’ve always looked at them as facets of storytelling, which is my central passion. In fact when I act I ‘write’ my character and scene as I do it, and when I write I act out the characters and scenes in my mind. So the two are inextricably linked.
Art |
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Uttam Grandhi
…Paper and origami teach me the true sense of tolerance. You fold it, crumple it or slash it, paper sustains everything and produces a beautiful piece of art.
Louie Crew Clay
Christa Pandey
Lilla Dent
Reviews |
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Atmospheric Embroidery by Meena Alexander
Towards the end of Atmospheric Embroidery, one realizes that Alexander’s angst about dislocation is no longer dictated by the geographical or cultural, but rather by the metaphysical.
The Normal State of Mind by Susmita Bhattacharya
Susmita Bhattacharya’s debut The Normal State of Mind is not your typical novel. Here is a book dealing with big subject matters: the limitations put upon widowed women, the illegality of homosexuality in modern day India.
Warrior by Olivier Lafont
Olivier Lafont’s debut novel, Warrior, is a frenetic, adrenalin-charged fantasy caper. Its hero, Saamu, is a Indian demi-god and must save the world from an imminent apocalypse.