Some parts of this archive are large. There are more than four hundred poems and more than two hundred columns, so every listing page has a small panel above it for putting them in an order that suits you and for narrowing them down.
Putting them in order
A to Z lists them by title, and it is what you get unless you ask for something else. By writer groups each writer's pages together, with the ones we cannot name at the end. Newest puts the most recent first.
A to Z is the starting order on purpose, and it is not laziness. Most of this writing was published in a printed magazine, and for most of it nobody recorded the date. Every page in the old site carried the year 2005 in its footer, so taking those years at face value would have dated more than half the archive from a copyright line rather than from anything to do with the writing. We chose to leave a page undated rather than to guess.
That has a consequence, and it is worth knowing before you use it: Newest can only sort the small number of pages that have a date. Those come first, and everything else follows after them. It is not a fault and nothing is hidden; there is simply nothing to sort the rest by. A to Z, on the other hand, works on all of them, because every page has a title.
Narrowing them down
Under the order you will find up to four boxes: writer, script, section and year. Choose as many as you like and press Apply. They work together, so you can ask for one writer's poems in Devanagari and see only those. The number above the list always tells you how many pages you are looking at.
The script box is about the writing, not about you. It asks which script a page is available in. The three buttons at the top of every page, which choose the script you read in, are separate and stay where you set them.
The year box only appears where some of the pages have a year recorded, for the reason above.
Combining several can leave you with nothing, because each one narrows what is left. If that happens the page says so and offers to clear them; you can also remove just one of them by tapping it, without starting again.
The address in your browser holds everything you have chosen, so you can bookmark a view you use often, or send somebody a link and know they will see exactly what you are looking at.