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The three holy wounds of Ranju Mamachan.
Where a once militant atheist bends his knee to religious experience In the four years that I lived inside my college, my soul was broken and remade and then broken again. I left it behind twelve years ago. It is funny that in all that time I have never known how to describe it. Don’t…
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The Indian Book of the Dead and the Living
Deadfish floating on the Ganga are a statistic. It’s as if they were only ever loved, if ever, by the person tallying their numbers in the excel file. Now we know Nietzsche was right. The sacred can indeed die. Now we know that even the Himalayas can sink back into the earth and everything can…
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I am so afraid of death
1. I am so afraid of death, I fear being dead. 2. In a small coffin, I am ready to spend an eternity, quiet and still, legs bent uncomfortably, 6 feet under the ground. 3. But I make no promises about my fear of death. 4. It will wait on my grave, with bated breath,…
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Humanity is bad for the planet
Humanity is bad for the planet, Like I am bad for my body. Someone in a three-piece suit is always available to explain to us why the high tonnage of leaking nuclear waste is actually a good thing for humanity. Benzodiazepine helps me go to sleep. So STFU and stick that needle right in my…
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GULLY,
A poem 1. The street, I am talking about, does not show up on Google Maps. 2. The big highways like big businesses, Are saved by yearly bailouts, And greasy wads of bills being slid into pockets. 3. In contrast, my street is filed in the government records As “too small to succeed,” And in…
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To the girl in Palestine, from India.
To the girl in Palestine,pulled from the underworld,with bloodshot eyes, falling out, going blind,and a little brother,who will forget that you once loved him,if you died,You live forever in the free Palestine of my heart. I am in no position to make demands,but you will have to forgive my antics,everything is to get you to…
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Palestinian peace will come like Carthaginian peace and will be as useful.
Maybe there is a clash of civilizations. Americans have been calling it that since 9-11. This being true, the killing of Palestinians is not only not evil. It is perhaps even morally correct. Children, mothers, doctors saving lives, all of them Palestinian can be murdered without mercy. Why would you refuse a good thing when…
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How the Himalayas were formed
My kid asked me today how the Himalayas were formed. Both of us were prepared. “When two supersized continents fall in love, they find ways to sleep in each others arms, regardless of how dreadful and primitive an ocean stands in their path. The storms and the waves will warn you: true love hurts like…
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An ode to an ancient ocean
We are all agreed that life began in the oceans, but I wonder how. Could it have been that the ocean looked up and mistook the galaxies blazing with the violence of a billion stars for its own reflection? Or maybe the ocean felt like I do the frequently pointless desire to scoop up the…
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The self-sufficient man
(Or a tragic short story about his impossibility) Today I tell everyone the truth about the self-sufficient man. It is hard to talk about someone you have hated with the very fiber of your being. But I must be the one to tell this story. I am the only one who can. The self-sufficient man is the kind…
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