Saeed Ibrahim — Excerpt: The smell of fodder and hay wafted through the air as the train puffed into the quaint little Deolali Railway Station.
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Michael Smith — Excerpt: From time to time during this overnight journey we passed through areas of very bright lights shining deliberately on the train. I had been warned about this before we left for Russia.
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Wani Nazir — Excerpt: They are a musical, rhythmic, and symbolic world, and every metaphor has a spiritual, cultural, and cosmic meaning. Translating Rumi might either dampen the original’s exuberant essence or sever its strong ties to Persian and Sufi culture.
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Arpita Bhawal — Excerpt: I’m not giving you any money to visit that shrew!
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Mojaffor Hossain, translated from the Bengali by Rituparna Mukherjee — Excerpt: Hello, this is Himadri. My house is at 3/3 Blind Lane, I have a corpse in my house.
