Read Original Poetry By Poornima Laxmeshwar
Unknown element The rain dampens The empty swing under the tree And the rejected draft Of my unfinished book Which I forgot By the lonely … Read more
Read an Excerpt From Meena Kandasamy’s The Gypsy Goddess
Tamil Nadu, 1968. Village landlords rule over a feudal system that forces peasants to break their backs in the fields or suffer beatings as punishment. … Read more
Poetic Writing Takes Flight In Captivating, Devastating Gypsy Goddess
How do you tell the story of a disaster? Poet, activist, and first-time novelist Meena Kandasamy approaches this difficult question in The Gypsy Goddess. A … Read more
“I have stolen everything” from The Lovers and The Leavers
This poetry video shot in Iceland and edited by Josh Steinbauer has Abeer Hoque reading words from her upcoming novel in stories The Lovers and The … Read more
Alone In The Universe: Ms. Marvel Issue #9
Note: This post contains spoilers for those who haven’t read the ninth issue of Ms. Marvel. Issue #9 is available for purchase on Amazon and … Read more
The Aerogram Book Club on Nayomi Munaweera’s Island of a Thousand Mirrors
Welcome back to The Aerogram Book Club, where Book Club editor Neelanjana Banerjee brings together writers and thinkers to discuss new South Asian books of significance … Read more
Women and War: A Review of Rohini Mohan’s The Seasons of Trouble
Rohini Mohan’s first book is a nonfiction account of three people living through postwar Sri Lanka. The book released October 2014 in the UK, US and … Read more
‘The Coat’ — New Short Fiction by Aditi Kay
I liked the coat the moment I saw it. Swinging lightly on its hanger, silver buttons gleaming. I draped it over myself and felt the … Read more
Read an Excerpt From Anjali Mitter Duva’s Faint Promise of Rain
It is 1555 in the desert of Rajasthan, an outpost of resistance against a new Mughal emperor. In a family of Hindu temple dancers a … Read more
The Great Sari and Mango Novel – Part 7, the Final Installment
Anita Felicelli’s The Great Sari and Mango Novel introduced warring twin brothers Vivek and Anish during a trip they took in their twenties to Johannesburg to attend their … Read more
