Girar

Girar is the story of Mother and Father. They live a settled and suburban life, but their son is gay, and has migrated continents away from them. They yearn for him to be home. Girar is also the story of our planet, and the thousands of cultures on it. Because I’ve been to many places, […]

Chakravyuha…

The Chakravyuha, a labyrinth of great defense. My Chakravyuha is not one of people or of walls, but of language, created out of the 12 ones that I have happened to learn (English, Kannada, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Russian, Hindi, Turkish, Bahasa Indonesian, Egyptian Arabic, Mandarin, Japanese). I decided to write six stories,  framed with two stories […]

we, of the forsaken world…

In a distant corner of the globe, a man journeys to the birthplace of his mother, a tourist town destroyed by an industrial spill. In a nameless remote tribe, the chief’s second son is born, creating a scramble for succession as their jungles are being destroyed by loggers. In one of the world’s sprawling metropolises, […]