Below is the transcription of Anurag Minus Verma Podcast, Episode 10 with Buffalo Intellectual . This podcast was transcribed by Mudit Vyas. Listen to the podcast on Spotify or apple podcast. AMV: Welcome to the Anurag Minus Verma Podcast. Today we have with us a guest who stays anonymous online…

Day when someone disappeared It was around nine in the night that the news of the death of my grandmother broke as we were about to finish dinner. There is a certain period between bad news and its impacted grief. In that state one prepares themselves to respond to unexpected…

Political Orgasm Short Story by Anurag Minus Verma She is silently nodding now at a young man with grey, curly hair and an intellectually fatigued face; the kind generally found in men who have thrust intellectualism upon themselves via their righteous Facebook posts and now they feel they have to…

Or why Dalits need to seize the pop culture. — American cities are exploding. For long they have tried to subdue it, but now the frustration and anger has reached the tipping point and is oozing out on the street. …

Till now you might have seen Shekhawati Havelis without even noticing that you have seen Shekhawati Haveli. Perhaps in movies or most probably on Instagram where some beautiful models are posing on the background of grungy walls of these old buildings.

Ignorance of Indians about the top-notch expertise of Dalits Recently many of us have seen/read news about few Indians thanking sanitation workers (read Dalits) by flowers for combating the corona pandemic on streets. Such rare gestures look pleasant but this doesn’t change the fact that these are mere gestures. It…

A poem on corona lockdown by Anurag Minus Verma Parks empty, deserted even by the best of lovers, cars on the parking lot standing, finally at ease, like homeless men lounging on the beach. Nothing moves on the road, Streets and buildings like still photographs Birds gliding over the city, …

by Anurag Minus Verma “Nothing is original. There are a limited number of stories to tell. But there is an unlimited number of ways to tell those same stories. I am more interested in forms.“ -Jim Jarmusch Jim Jarmusch’s name is not something which one can be associated with the…

A messy love affair In a viral video Sakshi, a daughter of Bareilly MLA, announces to the nation (especially to her father) her love for Ajitesh. She fiercely tells her father, who is harassing the couple, to back off or face the consequences. …