![Whose Real is it Anyway?](http://www.tbr-olderissues.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/indianwriting-470x140.jpg)
Tanuj Solanki responds to Amitava Kumar’s article, “The Shiver of the Real” from May 2014 issue of The Caravan
![Vagaries of Solitude](http://www.tbr-olderissues.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/solitude-470x140.jpg)
The thoughts of suicide cross my mind too often these days. In fact they began surfacing soon after your death, but I managed to thwart…
![The Death Of One Thousand Cuts](http://www.tbr-olderissues.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/fire-470x140.jpg)
There is a red pen in her hand. The lights are still on as Elizabeth opens her eyes. Enough light to read under. Her face…
![Betrayal](http://www.tbr-olderissues.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Untitled-1-470x140.jpg)
Professor George Wallace complained to everyone about teaching in the big lecture room in Gilman Hall. He wore a red cashmere scarf to class in…
![Gang Fight at The Quinceañera](http://www.tbr-olderissues.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/quinceneara-470x140.jpg)
I don’t like photos because they literally turn people into posers. When someone wants to take a picture, everyone stops what they are doing and…
![Myth Making](http://www.tbr-olderissues.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/mythmaking-470x140.jpg)
I would have sat you down and explained, poured
you a mug of coffee and placed it on
that aqua-painted table we bought at
the thrift store that winter in Alaska
![Untitled](http://www.tbr-olderissues.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/rape-470x140.jpg)
Bare every women and rip her on the streets,
And spare not even your mother, own
The pound for murder lingers no more,
![Les femmes d'Haïti](http://www.tbr-olderissues.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/haiti-470x140.jpg)
Woman carrying basket of pineapple
Atop her head, hair like an Arabesque carpet
Woven with a million coarse black threads
![A Fight With a Cannon by Victor Hugo](http://www.tbr-olderissues.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/readingroom-470x140.jpg)
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