Routinely I find them—
Kundera, Llosa, Márquez
and strangely, St. Aubyn
among Seth, Roy,
Rushdie and Deshpande
Charmed, I wonder
who in the city’s
favourite bookstore
consistently decides they
definitely sound like names
of brothers in arms. Ours.

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Carol Blaizy D’Souza is a poet, translator and researcher from Bangalore. A collation of her work can be found at linktr.ee/cblaizd.