When Zohran Mamdani, the first brown mayor of New York, was close to the end of his mayoral election campaign in November 2025, he began a speech with an...
At every side,
cannons.
And the only escape...
A small and muddy
swath
with lungs of afternoon
and flowers of
yesterday
soaked in earth
and red oil.
Kettles in either hand
each glowing as stars
and...
my favorite historian says
“Evangelicals want to keep
Israel real
for the rapture,” now
their plans are
falling into place:
their bombs are
falling into Gaza;
their anti-Zionism = anti-Semitism equation is
falling...
Govind Dhar is a writer based in Dubai. He has spent a career in print journalism and magazine editing. When he isn't railing on social media, he is toiling over works of fiction.