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Spring 1999
 

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The Lady & the Tiger...But Not the Truth

What do Winnie Madikizela-Mandela and Gideon Johannes Nieuwoudt
have in common? Hint: It's not remorse.
by David Herman
(Republic of South Africa)
 
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Heavenly Treatment
For a Heavenly People
 
During our endless discussions there was always one common thread--
Kosovo was sacred Serbian land and Albanians
 would have to be killed or expelled.
 
by Viktor Car
(Canada-Croatia)
 
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The Boli-Seller
A Short Story
 
The boli-seller would arrive the first Saturday of every month
and settle down on our doorstep, wiping the sweat
from his forehead with his turban.
 
by Vallath Nandakumar
(India)
 
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Growing Up with Tobago
 
We set up our tent in a field in the Crown Point area near to a tap,
cooked over a fire, lay about in the sun or in the cool of the tent,
all of us thoroughly and meditatively stoned.
 
by Anthony Milne
(Trinidad & Tobago)
 
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DALIT LITERATURE:
The Voice of the Downtrodden
 
They carry brooms tied to their bodies so that
they can wipe away their footprints.
 
by Razi Abedi
(Pakistan)
 
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London Through the Magic Eye
 
Even more curious is the schism between what the British
see of the real world and what of the world is transmitted to them: No
inhibitions at being examined at length, but a certain coolness at examining
   others' lives in such detail.
 
by Raymond Ramcharitar
(Trinidad & Tobago)
 
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Another Day
A Short Story
 
I think about Latha. When was the last time I saw her naked?
It is more than two years since we made love.
 
by S. Anand
(India)
 
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Poem
 
Something poetic there is about train tracks.
 
by Raymond Ramcharitar
 (Trinidad & Tobago)
 
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And So It Came to Pass
 
And when He left, it was not sitting on the toilet of His Tennessee mansion,
 stomach cramping, eyes blurring, but blindfolded and alone before a
  CIA-sponsored firing squad, convicted of teaching school children how to read
  both Spanish and English texts.
 
by Holly Day
(United States of America)
 
 
 
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