

Axiom of The Body in Bloom
a body a battleground
a starving warmonger, sacrificial,
repulsed by its own riches
and thus tempting fate
a body a vessel
where shame a once huntress,
now simmers
on low heat
a body a temple
a decadent cavity
where well-wishers gift their bounties










“My Kali kills. My Draupadi strips. My Sita climbs on a stranger’s lap. All my women militate. They brave bombs, belittle kings, take on the sun, take after me.”
Meena Kandasamy
Meena Kandasamy
“I then deleted language from the book, like a government censor blacking out words in a letter from an internal dissident.”
A Note on Process by Srikanth Reddy








“Did it leave a God-sized hole in your life?”
(Em and the Big Hoom; Jerry Pinto)



“Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.” — Arundhati Roy
