Nidhi Singh is a doctoral student in comparative literature at Indiana University, Bloomington. Her essays have appeared in The Kalahari Review and The Bangalore Review. She has received fellowships from the Fulbright Program and the Department of Comparative Literature at Indiana University.
Temple in Varanasi / Photo by Saurabh Chatterjee / Flickr
Spring descends on this city
suddenly
and when it does
a whirl of dust rises from Lehartara
or Manduadih
and coats the tongue
of this a…
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