TABLE OF CONTENTS VOLUME 33 | NUMBER 1 | FALL 2016 | $10.00
CONTEMPORARY GLOBAL VOICES ART 6 The Artwork of Poornima Jayasinghe and Sujeewa Kumari
ESSAY 17 Saba Imtiaz, The Ground Beneath Their Feet 27 Bonnie Zare, Longing for Belonging: Who is a Cowboy and Who is an Indian?
POETRY 33 Kathryn Hummel, Shanti Bloody Shanti, Empty Track, Worli, Welcome Gentle Stranger 37 Debasish Lahiri, Ovid Contemplates Writing His Fasti at Tomis 39 Hoshang Merchant, For Yusuf and Ahmed, Both 19, Two Street Scenes . . . 41 Sadaf Saaz, A Hint of Nostalgia, The Journey Begun, Waves, Choices
Tsitsi Dangarembga...........................63
FICTION 46 56 63 74 77 94 106 113 119 126 138
K. Anis Ahmed, Beasts of Prey Meira Chand, Black Water Tsitsi Dangarembga, The Brick Siddhartha Deb, Schlumberger Sunetra Gupta, The Still Room Shabnam Nadiya, Ganja Girl Pranesh Prasad, The Hidden Imam Mahmud Rahman, Every Life is Precious Moazzam Sheikh, Mr. Samuel Visits Washington Murzban Shroff, Scent of a Meal Jameela Siddiqi, Her Highness’s Clothes
Siddhartha Deb..................................74
Sunetra Gupta...................................77
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