2014: Year in Reading

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A Review of Mohit Parikh’s ‘Manan’

Mananby Mohit ParikhHarper, 2014Rs. 199 A ReviewMihir Vatsa To Start With, He closes his eyes…

Because If Nothing Matters

It didn’t occur to me till much later that Joe had stopped coming to the…

Hope That He Hears

You are secretly in love with your cousin. Every vacation, in your grandmother’s house, you…

Hobby

What Girish knew about having sex with a woman came from spending hours studying his…

The Tourist

The line outside the lunch hall was far too long- out of the weather worn…

Fault

During the days we met, the rains were light. The mushrooms behind the house had…

The Faraway Things

A Piki Tup garbage van rattles past Kero as she winces at the four-inch face…

The Balance in Silence

I watch the tide of a new morning in the pallor of the curtains against…

Equal

Equal between amberand blue eyesseven warriors ofthistleand heat of the sunas three hummingbirdsin your eyelashes.…