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The New Wife

Ever since Lala Dangamill remarried his youth had returned with a full force.

Malka Pukhraj

She was Durga in her fearless strength and ferocious courage as a woman, and Sarasvati in her fine

Poetry

India Day Parade on Madison Avenue

it is special here every day.

Poetry

Asoka

I’m sitting and rubbing my back, smiling.
I want it to hurt.

Jasmines in Colorado (part 2 of 3)

A week has passed since her last concert. On my insistence, she finally agrees to show me where she lives.

SoulMate

There’s something about finding a soulmate. You just know what the other person is. You never have to explain yourself

Poetry

Empty Journeys

Like sweat dribbling down our bodies

Poetry

Touch

That lingers far after it’s gone

Poetry

Touch

In the West, by the way, that is where our son will eventually go to study...they brutally electrocute an animal

Short Story

Bollywood and Gender Equality

Bollywood has been abused at the hands of the male dominant Indian Cinema elite that not only includes

Mutant Muslims

Another case of art imitating life?

Havelis of Pakistan

Pakistan inherited not only the structures of Gandhara, Mughul, Sikh or British period, it also inherited a vast

Poetry

Bush: King of Genocide

Your mind if it ever awakens,
Does not possess the clarity to understand and decide,
In discontinuous bouts of a war on

Poetry

The Morning Poem

I am not a morning person

A Day In The Bazaar

The young boy bumping into her made her mad, madder than she had ever been, but he escaped on his

The Bastard

When I was a small boy I could never understand why my mother disliked Bijoy-kaku (Uncle Bijoy) so much...