You who are alive / Pray for me Pray that no-one else / Lives like me In vain / Dies like me In vain:
The Dying Palestinians and the Muslims in India
When Indian Muslim are called "Hamas" or equalled to Palestinians, it triggers among members of the community, all of the recent traumas.
Is Spoken Word Poetry ‘Cringe’?
Spoken word often sounds like impassioned ramble lacking artistry and on occasion, even a decent theme, topic or sentiment.
The Light That Peeps in Through the Holes: Two Poems on Rat-Hole Miners
'We are bound by our sweat, oppression and precarity...This is our title in India, sir.'
Being Queer in an Indian Village
Rabjeet is shunned by family, neighbours and friends. But on Instagram, he has found a community.
The Government’s Lack of Interest in Involving Youth in Policymaking is Coming at a Cost
RTI responses show a lack of transparency on the Draft National Youth Policy. No meetings have been held of the National Youth Advisory Council in the past five years.
5th August
Four year olds / Who have grown up / Amidst concertina wires / And soldiers in battle fatigues
Muslims On Trains
My bhabi scoops out each beard / Till my brother screams in pain / She is terrified if someone / Finds her husband's name!
Looking at The Beatles Through the Eyes of a Beatle
A new book has put together photographs taken by Paul McCartney, using his own camera, between December 1963 and February 1964.
The Paradox of My Dual Identities
I do not need to fit into different moulds for other’s approval because I have discovered that my sense of belonging lies in my self- acceptance.
How to Not Be an ‘Instagram Tourist’
Because people now see their social media connections from their home environment travelling in an exotic location, they assume (consciously or not) that behaviour they ordinarily carry out at …