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“Poetry is a way of stopping time”: An Interview with Jeet Thayil

“I think when the poems came back to me, there was a kind of a lightness, a recklessness that I hadn’t experienced before”, Jeet Thayil remarks.  When he published his...

The 2025 DIY World Conflict Starter Kit

They said it couldn’t happen again. They said humanity had matured—grown out of its adolescence of nation-states, flags, and blood-flecked rhetoric. They said the world...

The Beckoning Reeds

On a dismal autumn afternoon, Eleanor Lytton made her way along a narrow boardwalk through the reeds and cattails of a desolate marsh. Leaves...

Love Through the Looking Glass: Taylor Swift and Referencing the Self

“Lookin’ backwards/ might be the only way to move forward”—Taylor Swift, “The Manuscript”. “It’s a poor sort of memory that only works backwards”—Lewis Carroll, “Through...

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Wellness, Women’s Health, and Tackling PCOS with Mishti Khatri

“A lot of women—especially young women—are diagnosed with the syndrome but often don’t know that it is best approached holistically.” In conversation with Mishti Khatri

Enduring Enigmas: Maharani Gayatri Devi

"In one lifetime, Gayatri Devi lived many, often contrasting, lives."

The Haircut

"The last time she had a drastic haircut, she still had Tamanna in her life."

‘Welcome to Shambhala’ by Sahaya

A visual escape into an ethereal space once reserved for the spiritually enlightened

Pool

"Do you even know how to use a condom?"

The Undaunted Poetry of Louise Glück

"Glück’s voice was shaped by bedtime stories narrated to her by her father, a Hungarian immigrant to the USA, who helped invent the X-Acto knife. The influence shows: her writing is as knife-sharp, incisive, and clean as a bone."

Freshman Fraudery

"My excess baggage had resulted in a handbag full of hostile playdates: a downcast novella, one teaspoon of sanitizer, two broken chargers, a single shoe from a pair of  Doc Martens, and a beanie.”

Dutch Tilt

A poem by Sanjana Sheth.

The Self-Sexualisation of Young Women Online

On the liberal feminist movement, influencer culture, and the internalised pressures to sell sex

“Surreal Starbursts” by Nida Khan

“To burn the witch is to admit the magic exists.”

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