• New pub news!

    On the occasion of National Poetry Month 2026, poet Vidya Shankar and I bring to you, our book which has been almost two years in the making: Light and Line Drawings! This book is a dual-voice poetry collection exploring lives on completely different continents. Light and Line Drawings is a dialog between two poets who,…

  • Warrior

    This month has been an especially turbulent one for me. As I pondered the whys and wherefores of war, I noticed that there were fewer mentions of the women in war as compared to men. Operation Sindhoor, (such a Bollywood name for a serious endeavor) was made out to be how men avenged killings by…

  • On a little cloud numbered nine.

    It has been very long since I sent in a submission. But failed haiku had a new submissions calendar, and I was running around a bit less stressed. So here are some senryu that made it into the journal. Check out the other poems in this lovely journal here: failed haiku For a wee memory of…

  • IWD 2025

    Humans have been around for so long, and yet somehow the species has still so much to learn about itself. I have failed to understand what prompts people to justify second class citizen treatment of women. Women have to constantly perform twice as well to be recognized as half as good.   As a species…

  • Winter blues

      All around us is a tug of war. A tug here and a tug there. By people and peoples who are not the ones dying. Not the ones living their fears. Not the ones whose blood flows. And yet so many tugs. And among all these tugs and stretches it is the common man…