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Jaspreet Singh
He drove me in a TATA cab through the streets of Old and New Delhi. The air un-breathable. I heard his bone voice breaking down telling why he didn’t vote for “the man who wears a […]
‘Jahaz’ is the Punjabi word for a ship. On the 23rd of May, 1914, Nanak’s Ship, also known as Komagata Maru made it all the way to Canada. In Japanese (a friend told me) Koma Gata stands […]
Every summer during school holidays my mother would take us from Indian-administered Kashmir to Ludhiana in Punjab to visit our grandparents. The address still resides within me: ‘30 Civil Street. Near Ghumar Mandi.’ Summers are extremely hot there, especially the […]
This story is in memory of the passengers who were on the Komagata Maru. This happened exactly a hundred years ago. Three-hundred-and-seventy-six penguins arrived on an iceberg (a huge chunk) to the shores of a glittering city. But they […]
Jaswant Guzder is an internationally-renowned transcultural psychiatrist, a psychoanalyst, an associate professor at McGill and the head of child psychiatry at Montreal’s Jewish General Hospital. She is also a visual artist. Born in British Columbia, Dr. Guzder is of third-generation […]
Does she usually read this way? Always in the same room? Is the tiny black object on the trunk (on the steel cabinet) really a bird? Why exactly am I moved by this image? There are 48 black-and-white photographs in […]
Hope- For them hope is a rubber tyre around their necks Someone will douse kerosene and strike a match Dear Dr. Singh, how long does it take for rubber to burn fully? Does it burn […]
Bhopal , 1984 Night shift: He separates smells with ease Dust of pesticide enfolds him like ivories Entangled in Carbide’s empire my son, the scientist, labors on Outside on famished footpath groundnut fire keeps me warm, I, the night watchman, […]
INVISIBLE BOMBAYS We left somewhere a life we never found, Customs and gods that are not born again… –Dereck Walcott. You in your blue lattice houses Should not listen to streamers of my steps Maps of my arrivals and […]
