Fiction & Poetry

दो कविताएँ
An old Rajasthani building with a lot of pillars and arches
दो कविताएँ

दो कविताएं – हवेली आधुनिकता के आवरण में क्षयग्रस्त पारंपरिक पुरुषत्व को दर्शाती है, जबकि चारपाई कठोर और लचीली अभिव्यक्तियों के बीच विरोधाभास प्रस्तुत करती है, जहां जो जिस चारपाई पर बैठते हैं, उसके गुणों को अपनाते हैं, जो भिन्न-भिन्न पुरुषवादी पहचानों का प्रतीक है।
By Sakshi Nain Bishnoi
May 19, 2025
दो कविताएँ
तीन कविताएं – “आज़ाद कर दो मुझे”, “पीके”, और “हमें नहीं बनना महान”
three concrete sculptures resembling human figures installed at a high altitude and facing towards the right of the image.
तीन कविताएं – “आज़ाद कर दो मुझे”, “पीके”, और “हमें नहीं बनना महान”

हमें नहीं बनना महान
हमें इंसान ही रहने दो।
By अनामिका झा
October 17, 2024
तीन कविताएं – “आज़ाद कर दो मुझे”, “पीके”, और “हमें नहीं बनना महान”
चाहत
A black pot on a firepit at night
चाहत

भाषा चाहे बोलचाल की हो या लिखाई की – इन में एक विषय लगभग नही के बराबर रहता है – यौनिकता और सेक्स से जुड़े शब्द, जब मिलते भी हैं, तो फुसफुसाहट में, धीरे से कहे जाते हैं।
By Maya Sharma
June 17, 2025
चाहत
Words, a blade!
brown handle silver knife on brown wooden table
Words, a blade!

These are their words, their vision,
a blade that left a cut in my veins

By Abdullah Erikat
June 17, 2025
Words, a blade!
Whispers of the River
A rushing stream in a lush, green forest.
Whispers of the River

We spoke about everything and nothing at once, her presence like a balm to an ache I hadn’t realised I carried.
By Abishek Philip
December 18, 2024
Whispers of the River
When I Grow Up I Want to be a List of Queer Possibilities
An arrangement of miniature colourful ceramic houses
When I Grow Up I Want to be a List of Queer Possibilities

To be a gentle / friendship breaker for S. To be // a candle-lit confetti apology for S.
By Aakanksha Ahuja
June 18, 2024
When I Grow Up I Want to be a List of Queer Possibilities
What we are owed
A seagull flying in the sky
What we are owed

…what is there to misunderstand
about hands that take without asking,
about silence twisted into consent
by those who have never had to be afraid?

By Shruti Sharma
February 18, 2025
What we are owed
What is your verb
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What is your verb

Khusro to Bullah. Ada to Parveen
यह, वह, वो

He, she, they
Lover or Beloved? Woman or Man?
By Carol D'Souza
March 1, 2023
What is your verb
what cannot be said (will be wept)
An illustration of a young girl blushing in the foreground and an Indian lesbian couple in wedding attire embracing, framed by a queer rainbow halo. "Lesbian" and "non-binary" appear subtly in the background.
what cannot be said (will be wept)

It is not a word you expected in this poem,
Or in any poem at all.

By Malavika Krishna Kumar
July 16, 2025
what cannot be said (will be wept)
Waves of the Unseen
A cube placed against a flat, vertical plain surface. A maze pattern is superimposed over everything.
Waves of the Unseen

The bathroom stall becomes a sanctuary, a stage, a confession booth.
By Radhika Modi
September 18, 2024
Waves of the Unseen
Two Poems: ‘Tongue’ & ‘Names’
Two Poems: ‘Tongue’ & ‘Names’

You speak in so many tongues to me as you journey languorously down my body.
By Damini Kulkarni
May 1, 2018
Two Poems: ‘Tongue’ & ‘Names’
Two Poems: ‘Stepwells’ & ‘In the Dimly Lit Room’
Held between a thumb and the index finger is the delineation of a golden-yellow leaf with sunlight shining on it.
Two Poems: ‘Stepwells’ & ‘In the Dimly Lit Room’

Just like on a misty morning,
we both
sit
without a shred of adornment
on these ancient stepwells
and the call of the hummingbirds
offer us sensations,
imagination,
and our innocence
By Prithvijeet Sinha
May 3, 2022
Two Poems: ‘Stepwells’ & ‘In the Dimly Lit Room’
Two Poems: ‘Only sometimes’ & ‘No filter’
Photo of a trees in a forest. There is little distance between the trees. At the centre is a singular tree with twisting and gnarly branches.
Two Poems: ‘Only sometimes’ & ‘No filter’

Only sometimes   Sometimes my love is as expansive as the earth itself Patient None of the restlessness of a…
By Carol D'Souza
May 3, 2022
Two Poems: ‘Only sometimes’ & ‘No filter’
Two Poems: ‘A room of one’s own’ & ‘Sunshine’
Photograph of the roots of a tree
Two Poems: ‘A room of one’s own’ & ‘Sunshine’

A room of one’s own You couldn’t begin to say the self Before someone helps you finish — Self-centred Self-serving…
By Carol D'Souza
September 19, 2022
Two Poems: ‘A room of one’s own’ & ‘Sunshine’
Two Poems: “Hidden Costs of Promiscuity” and “Volition”
monarch butterfly perched on yellow sunflower in close up photography during daytime
Two Poems: “Hidden Costs of Promiscuity” and “Volition”

I gargle away the itch in the tonsils accompanying this persistent flu.
By Carol D'Souza
April 18, 2024
Two Poems: “Hidden Costs of Promiscuity” and “Volition”
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