Desire – Stephen Dobyns
What is desire but the wish for some relief from the self, the prisoner let out into a small square of sunlight with a single red flower and a bird crossing the sky, to lean back against the bricks...
View ArticleExplained: The Autobiography of Khwaja Mustasim
The Autobiography of Khwaja Mustasim I stood for twenty years a chess piece in Córdoba, the black rook. I was a parrot fed melon seeds by the eleventh caliph. I sparked to life in a Damascus...
View ArticleKatalin Varga – Movie review
Katalin Varga is an immensely watchable Romanian film, a brooding and sulky revenge tale set in the gorgeous mountains of Transylvania. But first a word about villages.
View ArticleKaaval – Movie Review
As someone who gets excited every time a Suresh Gopi movie releases and one who watched even Kitchamani MBA and Sound of Boot FDFS, it's possible it were my high expectations that did it for me with...
View ArticleLiberal Decalogue – Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell - Perhaps the essence of the Liberal outlook could be summed up in a new decalogue, not intended to replace the old one but only to supplement it. The Ten Commandments that, as a...
View ArticleKaduva – movie review
Shaji Kailas’s latest Prithviraj production - Kaduva, interestingly has an omnipresent blue glare throughout the movie, almost like a light boy’s desperate attempt at stopping the movie from being...
View ArticleRobert Wood Lynn poems
l am trying to find a way to tell you this. There are things that trying solves but this is not one of them. About the Phones Closing my car door, you always say            Â...
View ArticleStyle – Bukowski
style is the answer to everything_ a fresh way to approach a dull or a dangerous thing. to do a dull thing with style is preferable to doing a dangerous thing without it. Joan of Arc had style John the...
View ArticleYou’ve been a coward in the fight
No Enemies You have no enemies, you say? Alas! my friend, the boast is poor; He who has mingled in the fray Of duty, that the brave endure, Must have made foes! If you have none, Small is the work that...
View ArticlePablo Neruda – Balachandran Chullikkadu
Chullikad's translation of Tonight i can write the saddest lines
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