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  Vol III : issue 3

  Vinton Cerf
  Krishna Sobti
  Devendra Ankur
  Ashapurna Debi
  Kamala Das
  Joy Goswami
  Jerry Pinto
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Jerry Pinto

Photo by Anirban Dutta

Lord of the linear narrative,

Show me the point at which I should begin.

Stop me when I have said as much as I should.

Regulate my voice, I boom too much

and my whispers are shrill.

Feed me words on those long, slow afternoons.

Allow me the grace of serendipity —

To find lost continents on my tongue.

Give me the gift of silence,

and then set me adrift.