It's all about a crush, baby. And no one does it better than FLTY BRGR GRL. kajalmag.com/flty-brgr-grls…

"I’d gotten better at leaving first, pride roaring, before falling apart out of sight. Now we’d come full circle. It was time to give myself back to the world." New fiction from Naveen Rao about love, leaving, and global crisis. kajalmag.com/short-fiction-…

Pain & grief in the aftermath of a personal loss + inspiration from Hitchcock, Satyajit Ray, my grandparents' flat in Bangalore + a haunting mythos about a two-headed bird = one of the weirdest and funnest stories I've ever written. Thanks Kajal Magazine for giving it a home 🇮🇳🇺🇸📝❤

Ifti Nasim's poetry speaks to the outsiders. kajalmag.com/ifti-nasim-myr…

Sarah Burney is back with a new One Piece By, this time in conversation with artist Abdolreza Aminlari. ow.ly/v0JX50Jh0Xb

"As with much dystopian fiction, what makes certain parts of the book so disconcerting is its closeness to our present-day reality." Read Mrittika Ghosh on Vauhini Vara's new novel The Immortal King Rao. ow.ly/PZOb50Jh136

Ashni's new "Who I Dreamed Of" EP is short with only three songs but will haunt you all day. ow.ly/QbF950Jj4hH

"In the absence of any radical amelioration of the Tirukkural’s text, it falls upon the reader to do the work to neutralize misogynistic language." ow.ly/QZhq50Jj4rx

Netflix's new romcom offering "Wedding Season" feels hackneyed and robotic, writes Nadya Agrawal. kajalmag.com/netflix-weddin…

Let YULLOLA take you on a trip through a black hole with "Priestess." kajalmag.com/yullola-priest…

My mamu and chachu on my parents wedding

Birmingham, England – July 2021: My cousins and I ran Around the house Picking hiding spots. kajalmag.com/poem-hide-and-…

It's fall. It's raining every day. It's time. kajalmag.com/playlist-sad-g…

Wrapped up in the story of the demoness Hidimba, for writer 🍓Nisha Mody (she/her), is the need for love, acceptance, and understanding. kajalmag.com/essay-monstres…

bismillah the eyes stand before him as he knives deep into the throat of the bakra an act of adoration kajalmag.com/poem-the-slaug…

For ~a year, I've dug into the Hindu right's impact on Bollywood, to find out how the vauntedly liberal industry - directors, platforms, writers, actors - is responding. Nearly 50 interviews later, here's the piece. This is not a pretty picture... [1] newyorker.com/magazine/2022/…

Journalist Mansi Choksi illuminates the dark corners of modern India through a somewhat innocuous subject: marriage, writes Nadya Agrawal. kajalmag.com/arranged-marri…

Today is the 31st anniversary of the #BabriMasjidDemolition, a turning point in the rise of the New India. kajalmag.com/babri-masjid-a…