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NOON Nothing remains.                                                                In the end, nothing matters. The lilting sound of a whistle emerges in the distance again – the rise and fall of breath through someone’s lips – but this time Ira pays no heed. Her father died in his sleep last night; he didn’t… Read More

She had come in through the back door late at night adorned like a bride. Standing alone in the vast white marbled kitchen, adjusting her thick green sari bouse, the fresh smell of jasmine infused with cheap coconut oil lingered around her. She sighed, she had told Kavita… Read More

Born in 1939, Joy always lived her life as if it would never end, as if she walked a fairground that could never shut. Like everybody else, despite wearing a watch and always having a sense of time, always keeping count, life tread past, furtive and soft. Some years… Read More

You looked adorable. Then again you always looked adorable to me, even when you were angry -sometimes especially so. Not that you were an angry child, I mean you were sometimes, but -you get what I mean. You had your blue goggles pasted over your forehead, and comically large… Read More