Vol. 2 No. 1 (December 2012–March 2013)*

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Poetry

Adityamurti Saraswati: City a Sarai

Akhil Katyal: Five Poems

1. First Books
2. Tim calls from Brighton
3. Jama Masjid, Delhi, 2012
4. One of the last things
5. The Rain Song of Ganesh and Karthikeyan

Liliana Negoi: From Cream of Wordflakes

1. river
2. relics
3. sheik
4. heirs
5. dawn

M. B. Meme: From Empty Room and Letter*

1. Empty Room and Letter
2. Old Woman
3. Room and I
4. Colors
5. Incomplete
6. Mould
7. Walking Stick

Sri Lekhak: From The Catalogue of Living People

1. Empty House, Hollow Man
2. Poverty
3. Portico
4. We Lived in your Land
5. Officer’s Shoes
6. Pieceman

Thoithoi O’Cottage:

1. The Last Word of Parrhesiastes
2. Exploded Heart

 Creative Non-fiction

Mohammed Hashas: Three Conversations

I. With a Rebel
II. With a Modern Skeptic
III. With a Futurist

 Essay

Dr. Th. Ratankumar Singh: God in Ancient Manipuri Literature
Soumaya Ben Rochd: One Said ‘as big as their head’ and ‘put an eye of plastic’!
Mohammed Hashas: What is Life?: The Process of Becoming ‘Insan’ (Humane) in Islam
Pallavi Ghosh: Western Influence and Iconography in Ravi Varma’s Painting
L. Joychandra Singh: Manipuri Literature: A Brief Survey

Commentary

Soumaya Ben Rochd: Malcolm X’s “you’re beautiful”: The Truth about Women?
Thoithoi O’Cottage: Empty House, Empty Rooms, Full of Emotions: Affects in M.B. Meme’s Poetry

Book Review

Anveshi Gupta: Manu Joseph’s “The Illicit Happiness of Other People”