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Contributed By: Rana Dasgupta
“Once, I was a boy. / Tonight, there is a sunset.”
there were weeks when my body unmoored itself from self-ownership and became hers & theirs & his. so caught up I was with remembering how to belong to someone. as in, eyeing the swell of my ass in the shower and wondering how much of its volume one hand could clutch; not seeing my own […]
Leaving the Cusp In a grotto of debdaru trees, Father sits with novitiates, boys slightly older than us but still in their teens. These are the sprawling grounds of a seventeenth century church on the banks of the Hooghly River near Kolkata. Father, a stern Romanian in his thirties, speaks fluent Bengali and is perpetually […]