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Jhilam Chattaraj

Jhilam Chattaraj is an academic and poet based in Hyderabad, India. She has authored the books, Noise Cancellation, Corporate Fiction: Popular Culture and the New Writers and When Lovers Leave and Poetry Stays. Her works have been published at Ariel, Colorado Review, World Literature Today, Room, Porridge, Not Very Quiet, Queen Mob’s Tea House, The Wire, and Asian Cha, among others. She received the CTI Excellence Award in “Literature and Soft Skills Development,” 2019, from the Council for Transforming India and the Department of Language and Culture, Government of Telangana, India.
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The Face

If you share the correct OTP, a face will be delivered to your doorstep. This face is a plateau — a cumulation of lakes darkened by screen time; miles of Instagram glide over beginnings of a body, body of a
July 25, 2023
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Tactile 

“The longing to touch…I feel gratitude when I touch someone  — as well as affection etc. The person has allowed me proof  that I have a body — and that there are bodies in the world.  — Susan Sontag,  from As
April 25, 2023

My Poems Speak of a Scene or a Thing

Nishi Pulugurtha In Conversation with Jhilam Chattaraj ‘the brown leaf between barbed wires that draw borders stuck held up and hanging’ — Nishi Pulugurtha Raindrops on the Periwinkle (Writers Workshop, Kolkata, 2022) is a volume of form poems – haiku,
April 25, 2023