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070 - New Horizon
Season 5 beckons
069 - The Archeology of Language
…contemporary precisely because he has such command of the poetic and historical past, and because his invented language has such depth, archaeological…
068 - A Babel in a Veritable Hell
Barbaric city sick with slums, Deprived of seasons, blessed with rains, Its hawkers, beggars, iron-lunged, Processions led by frantic drums, A million…
067 - Space and Dreams
He [human being] knows instinctively that this space identified with his solitude is creative; that even when it is forever expunged from the present…
066 - Eveningness
Today, I have my father, mother and sister at home with me, it wasn’t so last Sunday, it won’t be so the next; this reminded me of a poem I tried…
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045 - Brief Encounters with Independence
038 - Spaces
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046 - These eyes barely hear a thing
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001 - Letters from Bombay
065 - Stillness of the Night
The prayer drums that girdle this holy conglomerate of stones are one with the stillness of the night. The Gompa is surprisingly stable atop that rocky…
064 - The Prose of Cons
If we were not provided with the knack of being wrong, we could never get anything useful done - Lewis Thomas Most conclusions of the myth of Adam and…
063 - The Secret Life of Craft
“Knowledge is only a rumour until it lives in the muscle.” - Asaro Mudmen Tribe I am enjoying watching the UK’s portrait artist of the year series…
062 - Perpetually Receding Horizons
This letter comes from an island busy claiming things from the sea as if it were its own. Is it a debt or a loot in plain sight? And what exactly it…
061 - Peering Deeply into the Horizon
"When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for the moment. I want to give that world to someone else. Most people in…
060 - The Grammar of Rain
The etymology of grammar suggests it is the art of the letter
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059 - The Fable of the Meaning of Thunder
Explorations in the art of afterlife
058 - Non Omnis Moriar
Danish Siddiqui, a narrative
057 - To Have Briefly
Another season ends
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Bombay Daak
Bombay Daak
A reflective newsletter from Bombay on poems, prose, people and places. Currently in its fourth season.

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