Visual Spaces
Melissa Chimera, conservationist/visual artist talks with Pat Matsueda, poet and founder of ezine Vice-Versa about her work and her concern over disconnect between human beings and the natural world that endangers both. A sample of images of art from her palette follows. …[Read More]…
Literary Trails
A story of foredoomed love, Nirmal Verma’s short story was originally titled Terminal in the collection Sookha Tatha Anya Kahanniyan 1997. Translated from Hindi by Alok Bhalla…[Read More]…
Personal Notes
When Edward Said visited India in 1997 to deliver the Rajiv Gandhi Memorial Lecture and receive honorary doctorates from JNU and Jamia Millia Islamia, H. Masud Taj, oral poet and calligrapher sought to meet the author of the foundational ‘Orientalism’ to recite his poem ‘Dragonfly.’ And did. …[Read More]…
That’s Life!!!
In one of the world’s wealthiest nations, below the headlines of rising inflation and the impact this may have on electoral politics, is the problem of rising poverty among Americans that needs urgent attention. Sonali Kolhatkar reveals the depths of that poverty and sluggish policy responses.…[Read More]…
Literary Trails
In yet another selection from his unpublished volume of poems penned in Urdu and self-translated, poet and literary essayist Asif Raza offers his bleak vision of man’s futile search for redemption in a world from which the divine has fled.…[Read More]…
Literary Trails
Darius Cooper unpacks some of those poems of Arun Kolatkar in which he frequently combines the blues and Rock n Roll from American folk and pop culture with the medieval Indian bhakti tradition of Bhajan culture…[Read More]…
Personal Notes
Mayank Bhatt explores coping with emotional desolation and economic destitution, the causes of pain, and sadness in this last essay in the series of his journey as a cancer patient that began mid-2020…[Read More]…
Between The Lines
The shooting in Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, a small town, largely Hispanic, where one-third of the people live below the Federal poverty line, exposes yet again, the decisive inaction and callousness of the administration even as trauma among children spreads, finds Padmaja Challakere…[Read More]…