(Published in First City magazine, April 2013). Dilliwali is in Istanbul, and she is feeling odd deja vu. As if wrapped in the absent-present memories of a phantom lost lover, her gaze is always turned inward, to Dilli. She looks for the same face, and finds it in fragments all over this crowd called Istanbul: a glimpse here, a flutter there, a resemblance so fleeting-tormenting that sometimes she forgets to breathe.
Cities Within
Cities Within
Cities Within
(Published in First City magazine, April 2013). Dilliwali is in Istanbul, and she is feeling odd deja vu. As if wrapped in the absent-present memories of a phantom lost lover, her gaze is always turned inward, to Dilli. She looks for the same face, and finds it in fragments all over this crowd called Istanbul: a glimpse here, a flutter there, a resemblance so fleeting-tormenting that sometimes she forgets to breathe.