Abstract: The paper reads Eunice de Souza’s poetry alongside the trajectory that India as a nation has grown and come into its own. The ways that the personal becomes a testimonial for the political and the social is also…
Poetry is notorious for its quality of untranslatability. To Robert Frost, poetry itself is that which is lost in translation. But the works of great translators like Dryden, Pope, Ezra-Pound, Richard Burton, A.L. Basham, Edward Fitzgerald and a host of…
Abstract: Sujatha Bhatt’s poetry has this visceral feature which proves that she is a poet of exile and that she feels the binary opposite tug of language and culture. This paper analyses Sujatha Bhatt’s collection of poetry ‘The Stinking Rose’…
Abstract: Haiku, the Japanese mini poems set in three lines, following a 5,7,5 syllable structure, had enchanted the Malayalee from the 90’s onwards but none had successfully mastered the craft of achieving the poignant precision of Haiku, until Ashitha tried…
Abstract: The sonnet and the ghazal are two traditional forms of poetry that are grounded in thematic and musical structural unity. In contemporary times, both forms have undergone alterations to keep with the demands of the times, freeing themselves from…
Addressing the human condition, my poems deal with the injustices, untruths, false hierarchies and exclusions prevalent in society, which essentially diminish our humanity, what we could be as human beings. I trust my poems speak for themselves, and do not…
GAPING SILENCES At 4 am, silence is a single leaf twirling and twirling and touching the ground. The earth and the full moon contented in this hushed-up sound know the endurance of the reverberations of smashed monuments, crashed aeroplanes, splintered…
AN OLD POET’S SUICIDE NOTE Walking in the dark I grew blind Wading across silence I turned deaf Teachers who speak ceaselessly about light, how far above is it? Prophets who taught me about revolution, how remote is it? My…
POWER LINES The revolt will be an electric current from a broken power line A crouching wild animal in the bushes ready to strike at the ones who dare to love it with a touch Its fury pent up from…
THE MAN WITH THE SOLAR BRAIN His brain awash with solar rays The man with the solar brain Walks past the cotton fields And the mobile towers Listening to the tweets and The songs of extinct birds. Extinct is…
AN EXTRACT REASONS FOR EXISTING Just because we have rains out tears don’t stop Just because there’s sunset blood doesn’t get dusted From door to door, there are X marks someone is missing and like the story of Ali Baba…
Rumiana* “Rumiana” is an unending series of Rumi-influenced verse-utterances composed in mobile phone encrypted in txt-language. There is a constant negotiation between I and you, one and 1, in and out, pretentiousness and spontaneity, depth and depthlessness, merging and emerging…
