POEM: Medha Singh

/ Medha Singh / Poetry
The last toothless body fades to a period as it falls to the centre of the earth...

Blockheads Forever

/ Emmy Favilla / Music
It was June 1990 when the inevitable happened. I realized, two days before the end of first grade, that I liked the New Kids on the Block.

This joyless division will tear us apart

/ Peter Wyn Mosey / Music
Poor Bernard Sumner can't get to his new boat in North Wales

‘White is the Color of Death’ by Tina Panic Noise

/ J.B. Stone / Music
This unbridled rage carries its weight throughout the album as a soundtrack for every broken home, every maimed childhood.

From the Bedroom: Peeled by Joyer

/ Medha Singh / Music
Something raw and real like Joyer is hard to come by. They deserve all the attention they can get.

Interview: Arun Sagar

/ Medha Singh / Misc
Anamnesia refers to a little-known disorder characterised by an excess of memory. A disease of not forgetting.

Slow Stepper

/ I.S. Rowley / Music
May I see you smile, if only from afar? / What's burnt away / can sometimes be restored.

(Not) My Writing Desk

/ Medha Singh / Misc
This is the same place, dead winter Delhi. It was two degrees.

Interview: Raghav Meattle

/ Queen Mob / Music
I learnt to play the guitar to set a lot of my poems to music. It’s all about what I’m saying through words and melodies. For now, I’m doing it with a guitar.

Vimala

/ Vivek Narayanan / Music
Undefinable pole. Sharer / of scar: the first / birth water yet unknown / till we met...

A Playlist for Sex with Strangers

/ Amanda Earl / Music
I find a lot of men don’t seem to like hearing Jeff Buckley.

Sixteen Again

/ Oscar Mardell / Misc
At fifteen, I listened to ‘Sixteen Again’ and wondered, yes, what it might feel like to be sixteen, to become a full-time resident in that shit place...

Is Gully Boy actually Bandra Boy?

/ Mili Sethia / Music
While it is a story about how an underprivileged young man from the world’s second-largest slum manages to become a hip hop star, the movie is not intended for underprivileged audiences.

Gallery 7 from CHARMS and GLITTER

/ Robert Sheppard and Trev Eales / Music
She’s the Maid of the / May, dancing / with the chimney sweeps...

Call for Submissions: Music

/ Medha Singh / Music
Come one, come all. Give us an ample paragraph or two about music...

Interview: Medha Singh

/ Ruby Nangia / Interviews
I might have said this before somewhere, but it's imperative that the telos is to resist influence.

5 for Coping

/ Amanda Earl / Misc
The makers and performers of these five albums get me. I feel like the creators of this music understand what it means to be an awkward, out-of-place, vulnerable and caring...

Eunoia in Two Parts: Kripi Malviya & Medha Singh

/ Scherezade Siobhan / Reviews
The Hindi word “viraha” which means recognizing love through separation has been swimming about my head lately