Notes on Burials with Jayant Kashyap
We don’t like to dwell on death, but it leaves visible and invisible marks on our lives. In Notes on Burials, Jayant Kashyap digs deep, exploring rituals and omens that mark death and its immediate…
Poetry Corner: Volume 13
It’s almost time to pack up and burn the old year. We’ve been thinking about a few words we read online the other day. It said: “I don’t want a new year this time, I…
5 Books by Indian Authors You Should Read
As India continues its slide into majoritarianism, books by Indian authors reveal different facets – the good, bad and ugly – of a nation that’s flawed but still encompasses multitude of voices and ways of living. …
Southern Tadka: A Kodi Vepudu Recipe
We have a habit of collecting recipes from the places we visit. On a long visit to Kodaikanal, a hill town in the state of Tamil Nadu, we came back with the lingering taste of…
Poetry of the Wild: A talk with Kunjana Parashar
We are living at a pace today that leaves little space for wonder or the natural world. Even worse, there’s hardly any cognisance of how our consumption-driven lifestyle affects other species and lifeforms. Kunjana’s poems…
Book Review: Orbital
Six astronauts rotate in a spacecraft above Earth, conducting experiments and collecting data. They circle the planet sixteen times, seeing sixteen sunrises and sixteen sunsets. The “whip-crack of morning” arrives every ninety minutes. In the…
New in Shop: Poetry Cards
If you are a reader of A Thousand Mornings, you know the role poetry plays in our lives. In a world that is going to shambles, where each day crosses a new line, it becomes…
A Held Breath
Dense dark day, two sun chairssit on the lawn in the rain.Which stops. A mist comes toroost in the leafy intervals oftrees over-burdened in mid-September. It still seems farfrom turning time. August, where did you…
Poetry Corner: Volume 12
We are sipping tea as we are writing this, trying to create the warmth and kindness Leila Chatti speaks about. Rain is lashing hard against the window as if its arrival is a second coming.…
A Thousand Mornings 