New Ways of Seeing

PhD Working Title : "Mehta’s Film Trilogy: Theorising Transnational Production and Reception; Practising Diasporic Creativity" Pro...

"I don't know anything - Should God be proud or humble, majestic or simple, yielding or un - ? What kind of idea is he? What kind ...

"The poem - a manifestation of language and therefore essentially dialogic - can be a 'message in a bottle' thrown into the se...

A water rangoli pattern I once designed for a high school art prize unfolds in my mind like a sheet. I see a shallow square tray of water, ...

I am lying on the banks of the Torrens, my hands and feet touching the grass, my eyes turned skyward, when I see a white trail in the endle...

"Ideas (in the Platonic sense) are not shiny, metallic Figures in conceptual corsets, but somewhat shaky maculations, tenuous blemishe...

"All history was a palimpsest, scraped clean and re-inscribed exactly as often as was necessary" (George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-...

Am I glad that you still stand tall? Or saddened to see you decrepit like My grandfather. Who owns you now? Who rents your dusty spaces? I...

A corrugated tin roof And the monsoon titter-tatter Splattering oil in the frying pan Electricity in the air playing havoc Darker inside tha...

Autumn left yesterday Through that little space Under the door. But it hasn’t left My heart yet. Is there no room Under my door Or have I lo...