Unfinished Epistolary Biographies
by Sampurna Chattarji
My father died when I was sixteen
By sixteen I could have already had babies
for eight uncomprehending years.
I didn’t know, when it arrived,
that they called it the curse.
Issue 56 Number 2 November 2011
Cover: Shakuntala Kulkarni, Unsung Epics VI
6½ ft x 3½ ft, fabric, fabric paint, from her work ‘and when she roared the universe quaked’, 2008. With kind permission of the artist.
56.2
November 1, 2011
$14.95
issue contents
Stories
Ankur Betageri
The Knot
Robert Raymer
Dark Blue Thread
Jose Dalisay
Goats 4 Sale
Smriti Ravindra
The Royal Procession
Articles
John Mateer
A World of Indian Poets – an interview with Jeet Thayil
Pramod K. Nayar
Traumatic Materialism: Info-flow, Bodies and Intersections in William Gibson’s Pattern Recognition
Shilpa Phadke
And when she roared
Kellie Greene
Unknowing Cambodia: Returning, Reimag(in)ing, Reframing
Geoffrey Bolton
Tom Hungerford (1915-2011)
Poetry
Sampurna Chattarji
Goldie Osuri
Ranjit Hoskote
Isabela Banzon
Omar Musa
Ahila Sambamoorthy
Mohamad Atif Slim
Shalmalee Palekar
