Following the success of Litro’s special issue in 2016 featuring recent writing in English by the Indian diaspora, it is a pleasure to bring readers an edition focusing on contemporary ...

Vivek Shanbhag explores the prob- lem of identity among a population of one billion, in “Nirvana”

He plunged the knife into her creamy, voluptuous stomach. When it was buried till its hilt, he pulled it out and drove it in again. She writhed like a serpent ...

In “Solapur”, our protagonists, a lower caste couple, “had to wait for the bus under the tree on which bats were practising sleeping yoga.” They have been told, “When I ...

In “Fragments”, Anita Goveas pre- sents us with language and cultural dilemmas as a drunk Bollywood co-star confuses his English with, “Make sure that kipstick is lissproof.”

“It’s humanly impossible to tie up all the loose ends, I told myself, and took unflappable comfort in the irrefutable justification of that argument.
After all, we are only human!”