Amrita Sher-Gil, Three Girls, 1935. Open access courtesy of the National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi.
half all married, half all virginal
Two poems by Amrita Pritam, translated from the Punjabi by Rituparna Sengupta
Jose Bonell, The Archer, 2022.
a little ring-light of defiance
From Issue 12, two poems by Veyyil, translated from Tamil by Janani Ambikapathy
Aki Turunen, An Interlude for the Ripe Fruit, 2023.
The Investigation of Gems
From Issue 12, an excerpt from Buddhabhaṭṭa's The Investigation of Gems, translated from Sanskrit by James D. Reich
Bada Shanren (Zhu Da), Birds in a lotus pond, 1690.
wake up once again
A poem by Suryakant Tripathi, translated from Hindi by Purbasha Roy
My body kept clanging like the tin of your house
Two Hindi poems by Geet Chaturvedi translated by Anita Gopalan
I worship fire But recant when lightning finds me out
Four poems by Ghalib translated by M. Shahid Alam