POETRY

  • All I ask is that it does not hurt

    MUSTANSIR DALVI

  • So Much Oil

    DEVIKA REGE

  • Handbook for Aspiring Autocrats

    KARTHIKA NAIR

  • ZOOLOGY

    JEET THAYIL

  • NINE LIVES

    NABANITA KANUNGO

  • The sky fails to fall

    ANNIE ZAIDI

  • University Gothic

    SHALMALEE PALEKAR

  • Preserve

    M P PRATHEESH

MARATHI POETRY

  • Paranoia

    HEMANT DIVATE
    TRANSLATOR: MUSTANSIR DALVI

  • Excerpts from Mutatis Mutandis

    SANJEEV KHANDEKAR
    TRANSLATOR: ABHAY SARDESAI

  • Observe

    MANYA JOSHI

ADITI ANGIRAS AND AKHIL KATYAL

Queer Poetry: Engenderings, Endangerings

In this feature, Aditi Angiras and Akhil Katyal discuss the idea that ‘it might be more useful to think in terms of ‘idioms’ of same-sex desire rather than water-tight identity categories’ and that if queer poetry were to be co-opted by the powers, it would no longer be poetry – ‘it would just be propaganda’.

The feature also includes poetry from Rushati Mukherjee, Anahita Sarabhai, Rumi Harish, and Akhil Katyal.

QUEER POETRY CONT.

  • thinking today about the old gays

    RUSHATI MUKHERJEE

  • I want you to roll my name in your mouth

    ANAHITA SARABHAI

  • Poems in Kannada

    RUMI HARISH
    TRANSLATOR: MAMTA SAGAR

  • A Saint Came to Die in Our Land

    AKHIL KATYAL

AVNER PARIAT AND GOIRICK BRAHMACHARI

Non-tribal Tribal

Avner Pariat, a Khasi from Shillong, and Goirick Brahmachari, a Bengali from Silchar, bring us a selection from their collaboration ‘Non-tribal Tribal’. Through poems that are un-militant and unafraid of sentiment, we are alerted to the easily blowable fuse of sanity and safety, the tick-tock of cause and effect.

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