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“re, or how to write punk poetry when the city makes no sense”, nether quarterly (Vol. 2, Issue 4) (November 2021)

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“journal words, may/june 2018”, Café Dissensus Everyday, (March 25, 2019)

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3 Poems (“Interview with a Working Class Poet”, “Bengali I”, “A Lake”), POUi: Cave Hill Journal of Creative Writing (No. XVIII) (March 2018)

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4 Poems (“Acedia”, “Writing Summer Nights”, “Departing Calcutta, 2017”, “Sleeping with/on/in Charles Correa”), water soup (issue #6) (October 2017)

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2 Poems (“Merzbow plays a love song for his childhood lover”, “Merzbow visits the library”), Tittynope Zine (September 2017)

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“Misty Documentary”, The Oddville Press (Summer 2017)

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2 Poems (“Migrants are like Hydroponic Plants”, “Interview with a Working Class Poet”), Dryland: Los Angeles Underground Art & Writing (issue #7) (July 2017)

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“Talk of Desert at a Music Festival”, Visitant (June 1, 2017)

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“Approaching Night (or Drunken Temporalities of Calcutta)”, Former People (June 1, 2017)

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“Plastic”, LAROLA 12 (May 28, 2017)

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“when stories of crocodile did not belong in the zoo library”, Ink Sweat & Tears (May 26, 2017)

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3 Poems (“On writing about Surat and Childhood”, “Thane, December 2016”,  “Winter Wards”) Aainanagar (May 20, 2017)

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1 Haiku, Wild Plum (3:1) (March 3, 2017)

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“The Economy of Molecules”, Cadaverine Magazine (March 2, 2017)

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1 Haiku, bottle rockets: a collection of short verse (issue #36) (February, 2017)

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“Journal Words”, RIC Journal (December 14, 2016)

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4 Poems (“What not to do when meeting Donald Trump?”, “How to write under a regime of state censorship?”, “World Leaders in the 21st Century”, “Following Elections on the Internet not the Television”), Café Dissensus Everyday (November, 23, 2016)

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“Digitechtonic-mystic Trembles”, Your One Phone Call (November, 14, 2016)

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“Off with the Head”, In Between Hangovers (November 7, 2016)

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“New Years Eve at a Hospital”, the murmur house (October 22, 2016)

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“To, Us, Children of Philistines, the Only Hope”, In Between Hangovers (October 17, 2016)

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“Listen to Our Fellows’ Screams”, Aphelion: The Webzine of Science Fiction and Fantasy (October 2016)

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3 Poems (“Monsoon in Calcutta”, “The Lightning”, “The Construction Workers”), CultureCult (Monsoon 2016)

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“Global Imagi-nations, Mumbai August 2016”, In Between Hangovers (September 25, 2016)

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“Cameras, this summer”, Visitant (September 15, 2016)

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“Sectoral Trappings”, Café Dissensus (September 15, 2016)

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6 Prose Poems (“Hyderabad is the Center of India”, “I don’t want a Post Office”, “St. Paul is not po-mo”, “Jason Bourne is no Rebel”, “Road Movies, Road Poem”, “Build me a Film Studio”), Former People (September 14, 2016)

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“A Protest Poem”, 1947: a literary journal (September 11, 2016)

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“The Alice Blues”, In Between Hangovers (September 1, 2016)

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“Whispers of a Small Town”, The Opiate (August 31, 2016)

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4 Poems (“Revenge on the Cars”, “Ode to Indian Railways”, “[untitled train words]”, “Prohibition is Vogue in India, Again”), Tittynope Zine (August 29, 2016)

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“rundown cinema halls”, Off the Coast (Summer 2016)

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“Uprooted Journeys”, Peeking Cat Poetry Magazine #17 (August 25, 2016)

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5 Poems (“Sharmila I”, “Sharmila II”, Sharmila III”, Sharmila IV”, “The Jibanananda Hypothesis”), Café Dissensus Everyday (August 24, 2016)

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“The Voices II”, In Between Hangovers (August 17, 2016)

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“Memories of a Childhood Game”, Visual Verse: An Anthology of Art and Words (Vol.3, Ch.9)(July 2016)

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“Drunk Ks”, Rat’s Ass Review (Love & Ensuing Madness) (July 2016)

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“On unemployment and drugs”, The Sunflower Collective (July 7, 2016)

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“The Metro A/C”, The Opiate (Vol. 6) (Summer 2016)

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2 Poems (“the museum storeroom I”, “the museum storeroom II”), The Brown Critique (March-April 2016)

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“Sculpture & Debt”, Cerebration Literary Journal (March 2016)

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6 Poems (“apropos communication-scapes”, “the museum storeroom”, “apropos a journey through the desert”, “apropos ocean-scapes” “apropos desert and polar landscape”, “apropos cityscapes”), Aainanagar (October 23, 2015)

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“Cocktail Pills”, Cerebration Literary Journal (December 2014)

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“Bodies & Memories”, Foliate Oak Literary Magazine (October 2014)

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“Cocktail Pills”, Contemporary Literary Review India (January 2014)

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“Do Not / Write”, Drunk Monkeys (December 2013)

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“Our Belongings”, The Bangalore Review (October 2013)

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3 Poems, (“Theorizing Dissent”, “ravanhatta”, “Irish Connection”), Black Heart Magazine (August 14, 2013)

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3 Poems, (“Theorizing Dissent”, “ravanhatta”, “Irish Connection”), The Brown Critique (July 2013)

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