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By Staff · Vol. 5 of our New Writing anthology is our second one in print and features original writing handpicked by Anjum Hasan and Samhita Arni. Get your copy now!
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By Staff · Vol. 4 of our New Writing anthology is our first print edition and features original writing handpicked by Janice Pariat, Nitoo Das, and Jerry Pinto. Get your copy now!
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By Shruti Rao ·
I was baptised with dead saffron and don’t know
what simple games of your childhood sound like.
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By Neha Chaudhary-Kamdar · It was the summer before her final year of college when Vaidehi first saw Suresh Babu.
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By Krishnakumar Sankaran · I could roll the window down to let out your scent, your presence that lingers here beside me like all the bad choices I've made.
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By Ritwik Deshpande · Her joints are stiff, but it’s nothing to worry about. It’s her natural condition.
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By Surya Vaidyanathan · Alice pressed her palm to the cool glass as her husband snipped away at the fabric that would form his fourth hat that week.
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By Ishita Basu Mallik · Like every other time, I couldn't crawl into your first verse or your second, your bridge or your chorus.
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By Heema Shirvaikar · Maybe it wasn’t her love that was strange. Maybe it was Grandpa’s.
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By Praveen K Nair · When she sipped from the flowers, she would make sure that her wings were stretched out and displayed properly for him.
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By Philip John · You don’t know me but I have lived a lifetime with you.
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By Divya Bhatia · The man’s voice had reached where his hands couldn’t have.