Based in Biratnagar, Sushant Thapa holds an MA in English Literature from Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) in New Delhi, ...

A new cult launched in the period after 1870 was Theosophy. Founded in New York in 1875 by Helena Blavatsky, who enshrined Theosophical doctrine and precepts in her two books: Isis Unveiled (1877) and ...

the crescent shaped border of our back garden.

on armour dissolved by the summer heat. Lying on the edges of the bridge’s ledges, among the drop-outs of the Rome open city, you opened your heart to the gratuitous insult of Pedro, your lover, and ...

Mabgate trio played a lively, even at times, incendiary set at Trades Club in Hebden Bridge for the Sunday Easy afternoon gig. They are from Leeds and specialise in quite aggressive music, ...

only the congregation I made from stones. I’ve seen it in the photographs Hand over eyes. Child.Death Prayer.

Finally, Pavel discovers what he’s been looking for. There’s a work bench running the length of the long, low building, stacked with plastic containers. He opens one and the smell of formaldehyde hits ...

Whose Midas touch makes gold drab.

There are many squirrels in my body.

The stagecoach pulls in and they’re not on it ...

Shylock: Hath not a Gazan eyes? Hath not a Gazan hands, organs, senses, passions? Are they not subject to typhoid, hunger and despair? If you bomb them, do they not bleed? When you speak of “safe ...

I grew up in a country that did not exist anymore, wanting to leave it behind. It was a fiction, a lie, a past that couldn’t be reckoned with, ruins, a place I vacated and tried to forget about.