Volume 20 Issue 1

Volume 20 Issue 1
This famished road
Poetry

This famished road

Trisha Srivastav

THIS FAMISHED ROAD a child picks up a glass shard i know he hasn’t eaten in days shocked I tear after him just in time, before it reaches his mouth. I look down to see his empty as hell tummy bursting […]

Baba moon
Poetry

Baba moon

Subir Das

Baba Moon My Moon God is Hidden There is no Light on your Face At a Distance Who are You at Night? Shiva Shines on Your Silent Face Mainly Ancient Darkness You will not see Your Children Tonight Moon God […]

The Queen’s handbag
Performance Art

The Queen’s handbag

Maria Worton

“Hello.  My name is Betty.  You don’t know me for I am no-one of import.  I live the simple life of a commoner. Until now my life has been one of blundering about, eating egg and chips with the occasional […]

Karachi
Essay

Karachi

Bulbul Mankani

It was a balmy night like tonight, when I stepped out of the Karachi airport. I looked around for a clue for my rapid heart beats: visually it looked like Delhi and felt like Bombay on the skin. I had […]

Identity and violence
Book Review

Identity and violence

Niranjana Iyer

Identity and Violence: The Illusion of Destiny Author: Sen, Amartya Publication date: Hardback, Feb. 2006; Paperback: Jan. 2007 Publisher: W. W. Norton ISBN: 0393329291 The notion of a “clash of civilizations,” first made famous in Samuel Huntington’s 1996 work “The […]

The U.N. spins its mission in Haiti
Commentary

The U.N. spins its mission in Haiti

Darren Ell

  Port-au-Prince, March 2nd, 2007: seeing the arrival of journalists, MINUSTAH troops take leave of a group of angry Cité Soleil residents. Residents stated that UN troops had just arrested their 23 year-old neighbor without a warrant as he was […]

“Racists”, by Kunal Basu
Book Review

“Racists”, by Kunal Basu

Maya Khankhoje

Racists. (Kunal Basu, Penguin, 2006). While sipping comforting cocoa in the cafeteria of a high-tech Indian hospital that provides health services internationally, my eyes fell on a book displayed on the shelves of the gift shop. Three words caught my […]

Glass mosaics
Art

Glass mosaics

Nelsy Massoud

Artist’s Statement: We are born in this world to discover that racism has many facets – the religion of one, the colour of the other, the social class, the shape and size of each one of us. At 17 years […]

Slant eyes and ragheads
Editorial

Slant eyes and ragheads

Rana Bose

    Cartoon by Susan Dubrofsky Racial disdain and distance goes beyond incidents of hatred on the streets, defiling of monuments, police arrogance and brutality towards minorities or the ignorance-based proto-working class commentary that spews out of AM radio and […]

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