Lina Krishnan

Lina Krishnan is a poet, abstract artist and writer in India. Small Places, Open Spaces is her chapbook of nature verse. Her work can also be seen in sixteen anthologies, among them the Black Bough Poetry Winter Anthology, Wales; and the forthcoming Yearbook of Indian Poetry in English.

Capital City

Migration stories from Bangalore’s hinterland Walking back from the Naveena-Praveena shop, our little nameless village store run by a pair of brothers, we fell into step with a youngish man. We looked at him with the diffident gaze of strangers. Suddenly, as