Arya KS – Borderless

Editorial

As Imagination Bodies Forth… Click here to read.

Translations

Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay’s Bangalar Nobbyo Lekhokdiger Proti Nibedon (a request to new writers of Bengali), has been translated from Bengali and introduced by Abdullah-Al-Musayeb. Click here to read.

Poetry on Rain by Masud Khan has been translated from Bengali by Professor Fakrul Alam. Click here to read.

Dancer by Bashir Baidar, has been translated from Balochi by Fazal Baloch. Click here to read.

Motherhood: A Tiny Life inside Me, a poem by Sangita Swechcha, has been translated from Nepali by Hem Bishwakarma. Click here to read.

The Wind and the Door, has been written and translated from Korean by Ihlwha Choi. Click here to read.

Megh or Cloud by Tagore has been translated from Bengali by Mitali Chakravarty. Click here to read.

Conversation

In conversation with Afsar Mohammad, a poet, a Sufi and an academic teaching in University of Pennsylvania. Click here to read.

Poetry

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Afsar Mohammad, Rhys Hughes, Kirpal Singh, Don Webb, Masha Hassan, Vernon Daim, George Freek, Arya KS, Robert Nisbet, Dr Kanwalpreet , John Grey, Nivedita N, Samantha Underhill, Vikas Sehra, Ryan Quinn Falangan, Saranyan BV, Heath Brougher, Carol D’Souza, Michael Burch

Poets, Poetry & Rhys Hughes

In Productivity, Rhys Hughes muses tongue-in-cheek on laziness and its contribution in making a nation more productive. Click here to read.

Musings/ Slices from Life

Should I stay or should I go?

Keith Lyons muses on our attitude towards changes. Click here to read.

Bangal-Ghoti-Bati-Paati or What Anglophilia did to My Palate

Ramona Sen journeys in a lighter vein through her taste buds to uncover part of her identity. Click here to read.

Awesome Arches and Acrophobia

Meredith Stephens takes us for a fabulous treat of Sierra Nevada mountains with her camera and narrative. Click here to read.

Musings of a Copywriter

In The Lost Garden, Devraj Singh Kalsi writes of how his sense of wellbeing mingles with plants. Click here to read.

Notes from Japan

In Better Relations Through Weed-pulling, Suzanne Kamata introduces us to an annual custom in Japan. Click here to read.

Essays

The Story of a Land at War with Itself

Ratnottama Sengupta presents the first hand account of the war in Bosnia-Herzegovina (1992-1995) from a letter from her brother, who was posted there as part of the peace-keeping troops. Click here to read.

‘Wormholes to other Worlds’

Ravi Shankar explores museums in Kuala Lumpur. Click here to read.

Stories

A Troubled Soul

Mahim Hussain explores mental illness. Click here to read.

The Llama Story

Shourjo shares a short fun piece written from a llama’s perspective. Click here to read.

Mister Wilkens

Paul Mirabile gives a strange tale set in Europe of the 1970s. Click here to read.

Book Excerpts

An excerpt from Red Sky Over Kabul: A Memoir of a Father and Son in Afghanistan by Baryalai Popalzai and Kevin McLean. Click here to read.

An excerpt from The Blue Dragonfly – healing through poetry by Veronica Eley. Click here to read.

Book Reviews

Somdatta Mandal reviews The Past is Never Dead: A Novel by Ujjal Dosanjh. Click here to read.

KPP Nambiar reviews The Stolen Necklace: A Small Crime in a Small Town by Shevlin Sebastian and VK Thajudheen. Click here to read.

Rakhi Dalal reviews Drop of the Last Cloud by Sangeetha G. Click here to read.

Bhaskar Parichha reviews Burning Pyres, Mass Graves and A State That Failed Its People : India’s Covid Tragedy by Harsh Mander. Click here to read.

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By Arya K S

My mind embroiders shapeless thoughts 
upon the fabric of my being, 
as my body crawls beneath 
the darkness of a velvet blanket.
Night dipped in a pale silvery moonlight,
I knew it was an eclipse 
where the moon reached for the earth,
where they became shadows of each other.
But the episodes of thoughts 
that flashed through my head,
refused to align with the matinee 
of the harsh, real world.
I yearned to doze off, 
to slip peacefully into a pool of serene sleep, 
to taste the nothingness of life.
The air infused with the scents of subtle lavender flames,
winked through the eyes 
of golden fairy light bulbs.
My eyes twinkled brighter!
A zillion poems have found their roots here, 
upon the barren soils of my empty,
at times tangled, heart.
A restless soul seeking refuge 
in the atoms of those weary limbs,
a coiled mind that yearned to unfurl its tales 
onto a blank white sheet.
Beads of sweat channelling maps, from the nape of my neck
to the deepest pores of sleeplessness. 
I listen to my whimpering heart, fluttering its wings
as if ensnared in a net of  ‘what ifs’. 
Motionless, I hold fast to a squishy pillow
and the cosy blanket that never offers any comfort.
Searching for a hand in vain, 
to pacify a delirious heart,
slowly...
at some odd hour in the vacuum of the night,
I fall asleep --
devoid of dreams, poems and memories --
With thoughts that beat louder than my heart!

Arya K S is a passionate writer from Kerala. Currently, she is pursuing her PG Diploma in English Teaching at EFL University, Hyderabad. Poetry is a cool breeze to her musing soul. You can find her on Instagram @letter_shore. Email: aryaksgem@gmail.com

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