Love in a Small Town

When Colonel Aravindan Nair took him out back to the great grounds bordering his rubber…

With Love, Vincent

(A reimagining of a day in the life of Vincent van Gogh) * My dear…

Interviewing a Beetroot

To preserve the format, here is the linked pdf with the poem.Interviewing a Beetroot_TBLM

Anees Salim

* Anees Salim is one of the most prominent and critically acclaimed novelists in India…

Our Bindu Didimoni

Bindu Didimoni, as everyone called her in our small town, had spent her life punishing…

Boundaries

summer garbage belowstench rises like yeastto this fourth floor trapI strip, circle a dot on…

Jeena

Girl came to me in a dream and a ugly mark on her chest made…

sketches

sisyphus at nizamuddin. the veiled sadness on a man’s face as he brings in one hand…

Two Poems

Hotel Lobby: Sultanahmet IstanbulAfter the mosque and the church, some chestnuts,after the rain— every drop…

Srinath Perur

We at TBLM have long felt the lack of a certain kind of conversation in…