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What a beauty!

Shukriya.

Nizamuddin Mounds and mounds of turmeric at your feet. An infinite spool of yellow  thread around your throne. A charisma of Siberian cranes to fly over your dome.  And unyielding universities of water. All this I will prepare for you, saint. Please grant me my wish.

Rain Fire-eater  Heat-beater Smog-sucker  Road-mucker Train-stopper  Eaves-dropper Skin-soaker Sex-stoker Poetry-dealer God-revealer City-halter Work-defaulter Love-maker Heart-breaker

The Joys of Grading My heterosexual friends birth children. I shepherd little essays through drafts. Some heterosexual friends also do the latter. Curse on them!  And hats off to their craft!

End semester rinsing of the backpack. Ye bag kam, gullak zyada hai.

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Kathmandu (June 2025) The task of queer theory was also to console to tell you this life is inhabitable. A drizzle starts and both the loved and the unloved gather under. All a child  needs to do is to cover herself  with a blanket  or an umbrella and it becomes  home.

Delighted to have a few poems in this wrist-breaker.

Surrounded by books, and surrounded by the sea, Adil Jussawalla inscribes a copy of his collection 'It Remains To Be Said', one among many books he gifted Dion D'Souza and me today. The biggest gift, however, were the stories with which he filled this most unreal afternoon.

A Ghazal and Haiku Writing Workshop by Akhil Katyal on District! link.district.in/DSTRKT/s667xknq

“You did not get up the whole day?” No, I was waiting for chiffon curtains to part for Sadhana to look askew at me in a sapphire choker and for Lata in that trembling soprano to sing “nazar aayiega”, twice. This is all I was waiting for. I hope you understand.

‘The Last Time I Saw You’: A compelling portrait of an artist grappling with the loss of his muse scroll.in/article/108311…

What a beautiful and generous reading of the book, Yamini. Many, many thanks! scroll.in/article/108311…

The Twitter 'For You' section is a minefield. One looney after another.