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Dasaratha

Vivek Narayanan

‘he’s done something / he can’t take back’

Three Prose Poems

Sharmistha Mohanty

‘And the evening wind from over the sea makes that threadbare self billow like a tattered sail, all that resisted it now become the air on which it rises.’

Two Poems

Minal Hajratwala

‘The unicorns are a technology / we cannot yet approximate.’

Song

Silvina Ocampo

‘Oh, nothing, nothing is mine. / I am like the reflections of a gloomy lake / or the echo of voices at the bottom of a blue / well when it has rained.’