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Urvi Kumbhat is a writer from Calcutta. She is currently a PhD student in English at Princeton. Her work appears in The Georgia Review, Lit Hub, AGNI, and elsewhere.
  • Romance of the Class Traitor

    Romance of the Class Traitor

    Urvi Kumbhat reviews the new novel from author Vivek Shanbhag (trans. Srinath Perur). Originally written in southwest India’s Kannada language, Sakina’s Kiss has been republished in the U.S. by McNally. Trading keenly on romance tropes and genre signifiers, Shanbhag uses the figure of the class traitor to turn up bourgeois contradictions.

  • Calcutta

    Calcutta

    by Urvi Kumbhat. Blanched by sun. Wading home in knee-high water. / The muri man and roadside pharmacist and coconut seller / guarding their precarious wares as the water rises.