Split, scattered, scarce they are,
the houses, the hotels, the temples…
Alive, animated, throbbing, inhabited once they were,
now ruined, destroyed, doomed .
The injured, the lost, the...
Mainstream Indian literature and culture, until very recently, was limited by the marked absence of any significant representation of the Dalit experience. Although not...
Bathed in the yellow glow of a hundred
lighted lamps, she smiles at them—
the ones who drape her in shimmering
red silk, embellish her with gold
and...
Dark black ganglion circles
Spreading out in radial fashion
From between their thighs
Underneath their armpits
Below their eyes
In between their behinds
Violet patches on the tips of their...
