Vol. 2 No. 1 (December 2012–March 2013)
Poetry
Akhil Katyal: Five Poems
1. First Books
2. Tim calls from Brighton
3. Jama Masjid, Delhi, 2012
4. One of the last things
5. The Rain Song of Ganesh and Karthikeyan
Liliana Negoi: From Cream of Wordflakes
1. river
2. relics
3. sheik
4. heirs
5. dawn
M. B. Meme: From Empty Room and Letter*
1. Empty Room and Letter
2. Old Woman
3. Room and I
4. Colors
5. Incomplete
6. Mould
7. Walking Stick
Sri Lekhak: From The Catalogue of Living People
1. Empty House, Hollow Man
2. Poverty
3. Portico
4. We Lived in your Land
5. Officer’s Shoes
6. Pieceman
Thoithoi O’Cottage:
1. The Last Word of Parrhesiastes
2. Exploded Heart
Creative Non-fiction
Mohammed Hashas
I. With a Rebel
II. With a Modern Skeptic
III. With a Futurist
Essay
Dr. Th. Ratankumar Singh: God in Ancient Manipuri Literature
Soumaya Ben Rochd: One Said ‘as big as their head’ and ‘put an eye of plastic’!
Mohammed Hashas: What is Life?: The Process of Becoming ‘Insan’ (Humane) in Islam
Pallavi Ghosh: Western Influence and Iconography in Ravi Varma’s Painting
L. Joychandra Singh: Manipuri Literature: A Brief Survey
Commentary
Soumaya Ben Rochd: Malcolm X’s “you’re beautiful”: The Truth about Women?
Thoithoi O’Cottage: Empty House, Empty Rooms, Full of Emotions: Affects in M.B. Meme’s Poetry
Book Review
Anveshi Gupta: Manu Joseph’s “The Illicit Happiness of Other People”
Cottage Reader 