PinnedLightning’s tail“To love is to battle, to open doors, to cease to be a ghost with a number forever in chains, forever condemned by a faceless master; the…Oct 10, 2022Oct 10, 2022
PinnedTabeerThe body knows itself to be pure water or pure burning. — Emmanuel Levinas, Proper NamesJul 8, 20221Jul 8, 20221
Malpaís / BadlandsI don’t go to poems for skillful ease or what’s rote. I come seeking an empathic witness, what the Sufi calls ruhul seyrani — the moving…Dec 4, 2021Dec 4, 2021
The Smallest TearThe first time A speaks about her inability to cry after starting with antidepressants, the streets of Mumbai are angling for space between…Sep 22, 2021Sep 22, 2021
Unhurried BloomingAfter my best friend got divorced, she decided she needed a hobby.Apr 4, 2021Apr 4, 2021
Four ElsewheresAfter Bhanu Kapil : “To write the disaster as a mode of revision: detection, containment, recovery, reconstitution. Translation: 4 kinds…Aug 22, 2020Aug 22, 2020
Layers of FearPsychological horror is a redundancy. violence is intimacy inverted. The mind’s dark train whistles through several cratered fiction of…Jul 16, 2020Jul 16, 2020
Notes from therapy: Scatterlings, egg-tray farming, abandoned dogs, insomnia & the pandemicLately, I have taken to growing coriander and mint in discarded egg-trays. It is interesting how almost all of 90s sci-fi films imagined…Apr 26, 2020Apr 26, 2020
Today, WeToday we stay home and practice a radical vulnerability. Today we invite a trembling loneliness to the breakfast table and ask if it…Mar 22, 2020Mar 22, 2020
Safeguarding Online Mental HealthContent Note : Suicide and Self Harm MentionSep 11, 2019Sep 11, 2019