My grandfather was, by far, the most interesting person I’ve known. When he retired, he refused to be like any other retired bank manager. Every evening, he would take a pair of pants and a button-up shirt and iron them to a crisp. He’d powder his face and comb his four remaining strands of hair … Continue reading
before there were poems in this house, there was rummy; a pack of 52 playing cards in their plastic homes, stacked on the tallest shelf ever, my 4 year old hands couldn’t reach there. All the transgressions my grandma allowed- a whole bottle of coke, a CID marathon starting at midnight, but the cards were … Continue reading
Featured art by Maggie Stephenson The sky is overcast. It has been this way since I woke up, which was earlier than usual, because the tightness in my chest would not allow me to sleep in. The air is thick and slow, and the slight breeze carries the heat off the tarred road in front … Continue reading
Featured art by Anja Keller. Toby discovers that he loves tic tacs. He first found a small red box in Dina’s purse on his seventh birthday, and it was filled with little white beads that rattled when he shook it. Dina was sitting on the floor in the corner of his living room, crying into … Continue reading
Apart from being the classic toy for generations, LEGO has now established itself as a viable contender for movie-goers and show-watchers around the world, from their wildly successful standalone movies (The Lego Movie 1 and 2), to their TV shows (Lego Ninjago: Masters of Spinjitsu, the Marvel and Justice League episodes, Star Wars: The Freemaker Adventures, etc.) to their franchised movies (The Lego Batman … Continue reading
Featured art by Gujjarappa Bg The coloniser’s oppression fractured The grasp on my mother tongue — a complete mess formulated; Languages spoken countless Learnt relearnt and traced to their birthing ground — trans-generational Words and syllabi exuding soft — honey dew-ish Ambrosial nectar churning a web of comfort and homeliness Yet the coloniser’s language cuts my … Continue reading
Featured image by Noor Khan before we rustle out of our beds the rooster cuckoos the world awake light nimble feet, turn into stomping soldiers speedily in the shush of a bright morning the milkman traverses through our ‘pada’ his cycle crunching through the unrepaired, gravel-y gullies the clanking spoon in my mug as … Continue reading
Featured art by Egle Plytnikaitemy body is a bleeding boatthere’s firecrackers and soft stones bursting out of my womb and onto the footpath;the cracking noise was my ribs,in case you were wondering. my body is a bleeding boatit swells and the limbs spread like they were crucified with gold nails,i am not allowed to condemn my conveniences … Continue reading
Film is the art for the masses, created by large-scale productions that employ hundreds if not thousands of people, and are viewed by millions around the world at massive screens where hundreds of people share in a singular cinematic experience. Continue reading
The Cinema Edition || Under the shadow of a revolution, regime changes, the dawn of Modernity and the rise of invisible continuity editing pioneered by American artists like D.W Griffith, Cinema itself was seeing a momentous shift and metamorphosis. Continue reading
