I have only seen four goats when the pain in my throat returns. It's psychosomatic, the doctors say, but it bothers me all the same. I select the
Disha hadn't walked out of the house in anger, she never did. She waited until some time had passed, wrapped her sari around herself neatly, pulled her hair
It was Sir Teddy Barnes who made Neweralia the Simla of Ceylon, and he was a man who liked to see things done properly. It's a different world
They never knew you, who only recall
your smashed golds and broken reds:
those flashing conceits, tropes of a night too dark
to spell out by the fading glow of
He wanted me … it was obvious the second he appeared on the steps. His eyes were on my body, left right centre, and then he looked straight at me, like
Mr Krishnan was a senior officer of the government. Everything about him testified to this fact. He was neat and tidy. He was meticulous and organised. He was careful with
Sitting on the banks of the Helmand,
swept by thoughts,
I watch as time flows in its currents.
It bends and twists to the embrace of centuries,
holding in its
