POEMS — SUFI SHOWKAT
TRANSLATED FROM KASHMIRI BY MOHAMMAD ZAHID Contemplations about Life (One) You have to save the scorching summer in your eyes You’ll have to burn to ashes the shadowy evenings keep blazing words available to…...
POETIC FRAGMENTS — STÈVE-WILIFRID MOUNGUENGUI
In Poetic Fragments, the speaker longs for her beloved, whom she met only once, at the beginning of time, and now tries to trace him through her poetry...
A Letter Arrived — Surya Dhananjay
Parthu fled home at a very tender age after getting scolded by his father. He was determined to become a movie star like Chiranjeevi someday. Eighteen long years have passed, and there has been no word from Parthu about his whereabout, then suddenly one day a letter arrived that shook the entire family...
Interview with Anita Agnihotri — Owshnik Ghosh
INTERVIEWED BY OWSHNIK GHOSH Anita Agnihotri is a Bengali writer. She has been writing poetry, short stories, novels and essays over four decades. Her works have been translated into several major Indian and foreign…...
Today I Saw Some People from the Visitor’s Gallery — Vandana Yadav
TRANSLATED FROM HINDI BY SHIVANI YADAV Today I saw some people from the visitor’s gallery.Those people who disappear after elections,Whom people wait for,Four and a half years to see again.Yes, today from the visitor’s…...
Book Review of Arvind Vegda’s Forgotten Sorrows, Translated by Intaj Malek — Falaknaz Malek
BOOK REVIEW BY FALAKNAZ MALEK In the shadowed spaces of human experience, where the burden of societal inequities weighs most heavily, Arvind Vegda’s Forgotten Sorrows stands as a luminous testament to the…...
Poems — Laura Recanati
TRANSLATED FROM ITALIAN BY PATRICK WILLIAMSON There is nothing in this room.There is only you. Mouthing off,drinking milk. Playingwith a small coin. The air drips white from the ceilingand when it falls it tinkleslike…...
Of Words and Wind — Silvia Seminara
NOTES ON TEHRAN FROM A PUBLISHING FELLOW In Iran, wind is precious. Even in ancient Persia, tall, austere towers were built specifically for capturing it. They rose like chimneys above other buildings,…...
Jala’s Broken Teeth — Akhtar Mohiuddin
TRANSLATED FROM KASHMIRI BY NAGEEN RATHER The donkey driver Rasul’s eldest daughter had completed her B.A. and then also earned a law degree. Now a small-sized nameplate hung on the gate of their dilapidated…...