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Escaping The Mobius Strip of Time

Gau kamb   Dec 24, 2007   interacts: 2

Another Christmas, another year coming to an end. Out with the old, in with the new. The king is dead, long live the king.

Memsahib

Suraj Sharma   Oct 2, 2007   interacts: 0

A Poem should always raise more questions than it answers.

Life in the Western World for a Woman

B Waraich   Apr 3, 2005   interacts: 9

Is life in the west liberating for women from the subcontinent- devoid of the usual social straitlace which prevents them from being their true selves?

Intimacies Remapped

Harish Nambiar   Mar 1, 2005   interacts: 67

Part one of a series on my travel through a major part of India during the Gujarat riots ... my journey away from the blood

Squeamish in the Name of Science

Bina Shah   Sep 11, 1998   interacts: 8

Refuting the great Desi Dream

On Hate

Godot    Apr 14, 2002   interacts: 458

Hatred filled my entire body, as if there was no blood in my veins, but a raging, boiling, river of hate

With a drop

Hamidah Hemani   Jan 27, 2000   interacts: 11

Smoothing wrinkled sheets...

The Blackboards

Jagmohan Chadha   Jul 3, 2003   interacts: 14

Here is a bit of advice from some body who knows. Never be the middle child in the family if you can help it. Especially

Destination Unknown

Tauheed Ahmed   Dec 1, 2004   interacts: 34

The hairy ape had been walking on all fours for hours. He got tired of seeing nothing but a few feet of ground around him.

Thanksgiving III

Temporal    Nov 24, 2004   interacts: 75

too many queries
orphaned by thoughts
too many thoughts
not in word prison


The Export of Disease

Shantanu Dutta   Oct 3, 2006   interacts: 4

India is among the countries with the highest number of polio cases and it is suspected that Indians travelling abroad are spreading the disease.

Lesbians vs. Gays vs. Hinduism vs. Modernity?

Farzana Versey   Jun 21, 2004   interacts: 212

The only reason I am glad about the Girlfriend ’outing’ is because it concerns women. Lesbians have always been the secondary sex among gays. Patriarchy,

Sharded Past

Harish Nambiar   Dec 21, 2004   interacts: 10

When guests go
And I return to me
I’ll cure the hangover

Twilight of a Passionate Love Affair

Umair Raja   Aug 9, 2004   interacts: 124

O Canada!...Our home and native land!...True patriot love in all thy sons command……

One Ring to Rule Them All

Kaukab J Smith   Feb 19, 2003   interacts: 27

I see something I never noticed at the jeweller's. My ring displays the universal symbol of nuclear capability.

Bush: King of Genocide

Adeel Husain   Jun 18, 2004   interacts: 27

Your mind if it ever awakens,
Does not possess the clarity to understand and decide,
In discontinuous bouts of a war on terror,
You are an uncrowned King

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