the way being alive is both abundance and abyss

The Heron and the Golden Dust

Bilhana’s love - The love tale of an 11th century Kashmiri poet. निरर्थकं जन्मगतं नलिन्या यया न दृष्टं तुहिनांशुबिम्बम् । उत्पत्तिरिन्दोरपि निष्फलैव कृता विनिद्रा नलिनी न येन ॥ Youtube Link - youtube.com/watch?v=rpYxWv… #bilhana #kashmir #storiesbehindverses

pressed flowers are poems without words

my religion is poetry and butts

Love Poetry is anti-fascist

#JammuAndKashmir CM #OmarAbdullah questions global double standards: He says the international community’s calls for de-escalation ring hollow when the IMF is “essentially reimbursing Pakistan for the ordnance it’s using to devastate Poonch, Rajouri, Uri, Tangdhar & more.”

For a long time Pakistan has a history of hoodwinking international organisations like the UN and the FATF by taking cosmetic measures to rescue its jihadist operatives and proxies. ✍️Adil Rasheed newslaundry.com/2025/05/08/pak…

In this piece in The Hindu today I argue how India’s strategic arc must bend towards the Indo-Pacific, as a continental power with natural maritime dominance given by its unique geography, leaving any Pakistan equations behind.

From Iranian-American poet Kaveh Akbar's long poem “The Palace”

"Between a word and a thing you only encounter yourself" Darkness Spoken by Ingeborg Bachmann (tr. Peter Filkins)

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So utterly beautiful!!!

I don't know, too earnest? Thanks to the amazing folk at @roifaineantpress for publishing. Do check out the rest of the issue; it has, as ever, loads of great stuff in it!

James Wright 💙 “I have wasted my life.” Really feeling this one today.

“Time is short. If tenderness approaches, run to it.” Henri Cole