Photo by Nikhil Singh Rajput on Pexels.com Quite a few Rooi Baba flew towards Dabbo now and then, as she swung on the tyre, looking at the Madar plants growing along the side of her house, releasing cotton-like flowers into the air. She stretched her hands trying to catch them while swinging on the…

Photograph by Emmanuel Newton Part of you knew you’d end up here with Alec, with his tongue inside your mouth but part of you’d held out hope that you wouldn’t. You know this kind of thinking is naïve. That the dreams spooling from your head are snakes, and he’s in control of the ladders,…

Zorhan Anchevski. Photograph courtesy of the author ZORAN ANCHEVSKI (b. 1954) — poet, translator, essayist, and scholar — has published ten books of poems. His awards include: Studentski Zbor, for best first book of poems (1984); the international poetry award Giacomo Leopardi in Italy (2004), The Miladinov Brothers, the most prestigious national poetry award…

SUGANDHA DAS is a young poet who founded ‘Mildly Offensive Content’, in 2013, among India’s earliest performance-poetry collectives. With poets from around the world, they staged over 300 shows across the country and helped shape India’s spoken-word landscape. She has lived in far-flung areas of India, finding elegance and beauty in the remotest corners…

Senator Joseph McCarthy. Photo Credit, United Press – Library of Congress, Public Domain Bogie Versus the Committee by Norman B. Schwartz There is a common misconception that it was the malevolent Senator Joseph McCarthy who was responsible for destroying the careers and lives of many an actor, writer and director during the inglorious days of Hollywood…

David, with proud members of his family. Photograph Margaret Yip by David Yip After seven years living in Gran Canaria, I returned home with a couple of suitcases to live in Barrow. Once again, I sold everything I owned—from my car to my TV and even a full tropical fish tank. My younger sister,…

Renee Good, 26 seconds before the ICE agent shot her dead. Photograph Jonathan Ross – Alpha News, Public Domain R.I.P. | 1988-2026 by Sudeep Sen RENEE GOOD R.I.P. | 1988-2026 Minus one-degree centigrade    in the Himalayan Almora tonight — ICE predicted it would frost over.     I sit bundled in five layers of…

Photograph by Coppertist Wu by Amal Chatterjee This is the story he told me. Exactly. I have changed nothing, except perhaps the names, places and the events. Otherwise everything is as he said.             I came to Amsterdam for love, he said, the gold ring on his finger glinting as he toyed with his…

Detail from William Blake, The Temptation and Fall of Eve, 1808, Google Cultural Institute Public Domain Can we be bothered to save the Earth? by Pete Field If there is a personal deity then they (non-sexist pronoun) have a well-developed sense of humour. Is the old Testament the ultimate and funniest Jewish joke? Let’s invent…

A few feet behind him, a bloke with pinched face and grey razored hair, flanked by two enormous bodyguards. Illustration WordPress by Craig Sterling Andy Harris woke to the tick of a heart-rate monitor. Must have been some night out. A hospital bed. A drip in his arm, bandages across his head and chest.…