At every side,
cannons.
And the only escape...
A small and muddy
swath
with lungs of afternoon
and flowers of
yesterday
soaked in earth
and red oil.
Kettles in either hand
each glowing as stars
and each
screaming
at walls they cannot see.
Chopped...
my favorite historian says
“Evangelicals want to keep
Israel real
for the rapture,” now
their plans are
falling into place:
their bombs are
falling into Gaza;
their anti-Zionism = anti-Semitism equation is
falling...
The Kleine Zaal in the late-19th-century Concertgebouw rewards focus more than spectacle, which made it a good room for award-winning sitarist Jasdeep Singh Degun...
Yuvraj Nathani is Founding Editor at ALMA Magazine. Raised in a small town in northern India, he moved into global media and advertising before launching ALMA in 2020 — born from a desire to create a world-class, independent literary and arts platform from South Asia. Outside the editor’s desk, he’s a jazz piano tinkerer, a fiction reader across continents, and a believer in stories that travel lighter than borders. For more, follow him here.