It is your birthday and I think of you It is your birthday and the sun is shining the eagles hover on hot airwaves heads as white as sea foam and the waves the waves roll stick and stone beneath the pond still look as I sit here and watch you so far away in […]

Bankastræti Blues   Your legs of lamb, Reykjavik the red, crispy, tender, juicy young meat and the way you swim like a fish in the water or round and around a juniper bush or a sushi counter I drill my way under your skin, Reykjavik peek through the crack of your fresh fillets and walk […]

Listen! Mums filibaba Ting-gluti-tuu   On the barstool, a swine in human form is oinking it’s snout buried in a plate of nachos it wears a broad wool headband and looks like it thinks it looks like Elaine from Seinfeld Two sows are throning by it’s side, dressed in pretty outfits fashionably draped on their […]

फूलों के गाँव में तरह-तरह के फूल थे. आक के फूल, अड़सूटा के फूल, कटैड़ी के फूल, आम के फूल, नीम के फूल, बबूल के फूल. आक के फूल की शकल घुँघरू जैसी थी. परदेसी आक के फूल की षकल षहनार्इ से मिलती थी. इस तरह हरेक फूल में कोर्इ न कोर्इ खूबी थी. कटैड़ी […]

अनुवाद एवं प्रस्तुति: प्रभात मैथिली कविता: तरेगन मामु हो एक तेरगन दू तरेगन तरेगन मामु हो   आपने खाएला झींगा मछरिया हमरा देर्इला झोर तोहरा दुअरिया अब ना जैइबो टप-टप टपके लोर गुजराती कविता: टबुक-टबुक: नटवर पटेल छोटे तारे लबुक-लबुक बड़े तारे झबुक-झबुक डूंगर के पीछे से चांद कैसा देखे टबुक-टबुक   कुमाउनी कविता मोहन […]

Danenation   Jesus was a Dane. Buddha was a Dane. Leonardo Da Vinci was a Dane. Don’t let anybody fool you into believing anything else, not Indian, Russian, Egyptian or even American. Jesus was a Dane he might have been to India and he might have died somewhere in the Himalayas. But Jesus was a […]

Translated from Danish by Milton Esman Exploring you I chisel me into you and engrave you into me and build my own monastery in your stoney bedrock. From me to Al-deyr traveling along the skeleton coast to the iron grotto where the waters of the Timor Sea licks the rough edges I steal me a […]

फिर मदर इण्डिया तुम क्या कभी सोचोगे उन आँसुओं के बारे में जो उस दिन शायद अख़बार पर ही टपके होंगे ख़बर पढ़कर   मुझसे सिर्फ तीस-पैंतीस किलोमीटर और महज दो-तीन सालों के अन्तर पर पैदा होकर भी कितने अलग हो यार!   शायद तुम न जान पाओ कितने महीने लगे होंगे या लगे होंगे […]

Translated by Daisy Rockwell It was the second week of June when Kaviraj decided to go to Shimla. He told Chetan to get himself ready for the trip and then come to his pharmacy. Chetan didn’t have much to get ready. All he had was the soft, warm quilt he had received as a wedding […]

अंग्रेजी, उर्दू, बांग्ला, तमिल और हिंदी के 20 लेखकों की रचनाएँ

Featuring 20 writers from Bangla, English, Hindi, Tamil and Urdu