Author: Reza Hussain

We blew it

REFLECTIONS: ON TAKING

I reach for and find the packet, unconsciously drawing from it while my mind resynchs to the effects of the television, I produce a chocolate chip cookie and take most of it in a single bite. I crush it between my teeth and my saliva mixes to dissolve the chocolate in my mouth. I am […]

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View to a

Here’s our featured guest post by Rosheena Zehra. You can find more of her work at her blog here It’s a fine bright day and the classroom discussion is about being stuck in an empty bus with only the driver, the conductor and a seedy looking passenger. The participants of the conversation sit and laugh about the […]

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We Are Everywhere – Jerry Rubin and We Are Everywhere – The Irresistable Rise of Global Anticapitalism

There are two books here. Yes, with the same name and pretty much about the same thing. Each worth going through- do so with caution. Caution caution caution. Sounds like We Are Everywhere – The Irresistable Rise of Global Anticapitalism Very 2000’s-sy, which is to say that thanks to the flashy editing and clean, uncluttered […]

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Reflections: On Character

‘What do you do?’ ‘I’m a writer’ 1. I’m trying to keep up but A is moving quickly. Already L had been shed from our company, lost somewhere in the bazaar behind us. It’s my turn I guess, but I’m not quite done. I catch up to him, walking briskly beside him while I try to assimilate […]

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Hear – Advised on Urbanity

And here’s our first guest post- a poem by Alia Sinha, a student of Media and Culture at the TATA Institute of Social Sciences Listen, Before you spill your secrets to strangers Or to me This is the wrong time to be thus- Wandering with swollen ankles and Looking through curtained windows For love. Towers are […]

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