by Fathima Zahra | Feb 28, 2025 | Word & Image
IRATTAM: A THEORY OF RED Irattam is a short excerpt from a longer practise-based work in progress mediating on colour, history and conflict. S. Niroshini writes poetry and fiction. She is the author of Darling Girl (Bad Betty Press,...
by Fathima Zahra | Feb 28, 2025 | Featured, Prose
Butterfly Clips Tucked within the geographic irrelevance of a small town in South India stands a tiny red-brick villa. More than twice my age, this is the house that my grandparents moved into when my mother was five. So, although it didn’t...
by Fathima Zahra | Feb 27, 2025 | Featured, Poetry
The city asleep Street after street, ears bright to bass and tune of two thudding feet, gradients of breathing. But rain is brooding. Sparse headlights, ambient drone of cars kissing tarmac, merging — but rain twists senses, fractures distance,...
by Fathima Zahra | Feb 26, 2025 | Featured, Poetry
Milk break, lunch break Working the land on good days, after Easter, people would hear the breaks occur at school, children calling as they ran into the playground, familiar skipping rhymes rising from the babble. An ample fence stood between them...
by Fathima Zahra | Feb 25, 2025 | Featured, Poetry
Patience Some days, the privilege of living isn’t enough. The weight of the kettle is unbearable. You leave the teabag forlorn in the mug, unpoured. Cooking seems too great a price to pay for eating. Instead, you sit and you look at a book without...
