Yousef is also battling cancer - in Gaza. With a healthcare system that was deliberately destroyed by Biden.

Our beloved colleague ⁦Ali Khan Mahmudabad⁩’s book is titled, “Poetry of Belongings,” which he ends with the following couplet by Mahbub: “I will gather twigs once again from this garden to build my nest/ For my home was set ablaze and I have all the time in the world." ❤️

Watch me.

Congratulations to Banu Mushtaq & translator Deepa Bhasti on HEART LAMP winning the International Booker Prize 2025 and creating history by being the first original work in Kannada as well as the first short story collection to do so 👏🏽👏🏽

Guess who got arrested for their post.

Mausere bhai

Putting it in context:

I have two poems in the 2025 digital issue of So to Speak! Here's a sonnet (slightly broken due to phone screenshot) sotospeakjournal.org/debmalya-bandy…

How this is not a national issue is beyond me. What happened to women being Devis & being worshipped? Wombs of 843 poor women removed without their consent and no one fucking cares?

So when Yemenis seize ships that facilitate genocide its bad, but when Israel seizes ships that try to stop a genocide, that's OK

"My name is Greta Thunberg and I am from Sweden. If you see this video, we have been intercepted and kidnapped in international waters by the Israeli occupational forces, or forces that support Israel."

Sixth article from jail. As he approaches five years behind bars, Umar Khalid writes on hope, waiting, despair and on a few lessons in captivity... "There is indeed something about captivity that makes one feel like a state of somewhere between life and death"... Link below

“Is it time enough for our release?”

Dont romanticise train journeys in India. Most of the trains lack clean bathrooms, are always crowded, are littered with garbage. When I was a student in South India, I used to travel on these long distance trains, which mostly originated from Dibrugarh/ Guwahati and mostly

I miss that specific genre of movies where a renegade art teacher comes in and teaches their usually straight laced students how to live a little. The Mona Lisa Smiles and the Dead Poets Societies… we just don’t make them anymore

Need urgent help(Mumbai): Our help's son is visually impaired and needs a writer to sit with him for his std 10 exam. The writer needs to be either in Std 8 or just going into Std 9. I know this is asking a lot: to bring your child to sit for hours to write for some stranger. But

i’m thinking of mohamad abu al qumsan, whose wife and newborn twins were murdered as he went to pick up their birth certificates. may the ghosts of all the families you have helped to blow apart haunt you for the rest of your pathetic, genocide-enabling life

Every time i see Palestinian kids struggle for a single Parle G my heart breaks. A packet here costs 10rs ( about 0.15 USD)

Form and fund litmags. Literary prizes won't do the job hamare yahan. We neither have canonical depth nor marketing savvy nor ardent capital. We are great at small obsessions, though.