Jaggery Roof
“It’s midnight in Delhi./ I am tongue kissing a bowl of Bengali pudding/…listening to the heartbeats of a million books.” Poem of the Week (October 22), by TJ Dema.
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Pushcart Prize 2014 Nominations
The Missing Slate’s poetry and fiction shortlists for the 2014 Pushcart Prizes.
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Poet of the Month: Athena Kashyap
“When the media is not objective, catering more to the sensationalist and vested interests, then art can and has to step in…” Athena Kashyap, our Poet of the Month, talks to Maida Salkanović.
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Author of the Month: Rob Ross
Luke Miller interviews Author of the Month Rob Ross about the state of the short story, combining work as an editor with writing, and why ‘middle-class characters struggling to come to terms with themselves’ are best avoided.
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A Cold Second Coming
The Missing Slate’s Jacob Silkstone on Colm TóibÃn’s Booker-shortlisted The Testament of Mary.
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In Memory of Kailashpati Nishad
“who could have thought/ that death would come like this –/ like a bird.” By Kedarnath Singh, translated from the Hindi by Rahul Soni.
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Camp X-Ray
“Sometimes on my knees, before the orange hood was raised, the blindfold bound, I faced the hills…” By Ravi Shankar.
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The Wailing Wall, Revisited
“Time had preserved/ memory,/ … Was I the same then/ as I am now?” By Sudeep Sen.
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Living With Earthquakes
“…the devourer of form,/ once a genteel termite,/ now at your jugular, foaming…” By Arundhathi Subramaniam.
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Meaning
“It is by this/ Practise in sounds / Alien that we come/ By degrees round to/ The quick of meaning…” By Tabish Khair.
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