In the various technicolor masks We slip on, the performance of the office amphitheater The real self for a flicker Peeping through the various iterations Of mental costumes, Between meetings, small talk The performance of the ‘face’ In front of the open office Real work just about, happens Inspite of the mask Lean in, authenticity … More The Human Chatbot

Deepak Unnikrishnan’s Temporary People is the best migration oriented book on the Gulf and in general in a while. The power of this poetry and prose has an experiment texture but delivers the message about the Indian ness or the sheer lack of it once one has never lived in India, and the conception of … More Temporary People, by Deepak Unnikrishnan: A Tour De Force