The Other Queens of Calcutta, by Sahana Ahmed

Mother Teresa, by Maqbool Fida Husain (India) 1989

 
The Other Queens of Calcutta
 
#27
chattogram / park circus / tiktok 
breaks the kanoon every day but not to be blamed for teish may
 
#29
ekdalia / gariahat / rashbehari
feasts on men and mutton chops from gopal patha’r mangsho shop
 
#13
bow barracks / dalhousie
quit phishing at peerless inn to learn mah-jong for stockbroking 
 
#18
zie / marxist / probashi
does the merengue in hong kong shoes for homeless kids in metiabruz
 
#03
parishad girl for -.. .. -.. ..
party-shill on news tv with decibel level = goswami
 
#22
farmer / migrant / leftist
jhalmuri mashi from nandigram who knows the truth of chit fund scam
 
#33
markin / yogini / revivalist
tomar naam, amar naam; v̶i̶e̶t̶n̶a̶m̶ jai shri ram

Sahana Ahmed
 
Sahana Ahmed is a fiction writer and poet from Gurugram, India. She is the author of Combat Skirts (Juggernaut Books, 2018; Quignog, 2018), a novel based in the Calcutta of the nineties. Find her online at www.sahanaahmed.com.