Passage Through the Zone
Fear of the new and unexplored take center stage in this essay by Senior Film Critic Rhea Cinna on Andrei Tarkovsky’s Stalker.
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The Man of Propaganda
The Missing Slate’s Jay Sizemore on how film can suffer when pandering to an often unknowing public.
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Spotlight Artist: Umer Wasim
The Missing Slate’s Creative Director, Moeed Tariq sits down with Umer Wasim to talk about his work, dreams growing up, his choice of art school, and the pros and cons of group versus solo exhibits.
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Journey / सफर
From our tenth issue, Rahul Soni translates Prahbat’s Hindi original (running side-by-side) of plumbing the depths of sadness.
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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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Lesson 7: How to Dream a Beautiful Death
“…this is how he wants to go—/ like an ochre flower in a field,/ hungry and alive, the wind rushing in,/ scattering him everywhere.” By Tishani Doshi.
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