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Two Poems by Sonali Pattnaik

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  • Posted on July 16, 2020

By Sonali Pattnaik
can you hear thousands chanting,
as they march hand in hand,
‘not in my name’, ‘not in my name.’

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Two Poems by Syed Aamir Sharief Qadri

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  • Posted on July 5, 2020July 5, 2020

By Syed Aamir Sharief Qadri
The people here are not authorized to talk loud
They usually talk in hints, signs and gestures.

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Poem: Erasing History

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  • Posted on July 4, 2020July 4, 2020

By Mitali Chakravarty
Can a land be unfound?
Can History be unwound?
Can Time be redeemed?

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Two Poems by Sonnet Mondal

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  • Posted on June 28, 2020June 28, 2020

By Sonnet Mondal
The city leans over the Yamuna
to clean its wounds.

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Poem: Death

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  • Posted on June 20, 2020June 20, 2020

By Aafiya Siddiqui
Now I envy the lamenting pens
And pheonix tears of mourning eyes
For mine have dried
Turning the fissure of heart
into deep voids.

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Two Poems by Mitali Chakravarty

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  • Posted on June 17, 2020

By Mitali Chakravarty
Why perpetrate borders drenched in blood
while Lalon only sings of Humanity and Love?

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Three Poems by Michael R. Burch

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  • Posted on June 15, 2020June 15, 2020

By Michael R. Burch
At last, done with learning, I stumbled
to a well where the waters seemed sweet:
the mirage of American “justice.”
There I wept a real sea, in defeat.

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Three Poems by Mubashir Karim

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  • Posted on June 13, 2020

By Mubashir Karim
Sometimes,
Clarity is not what one wishes for –
Voice-breaks are needed to overwrite 
The beginnings of love affairs
The-strangers-yet-to-meet kind of narratives
Over the everyday details.

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Book Review: Kiriti Sengupta, Anu Majumdar and Dustin Pickering’s ‘Hibiscus: Poems that heal and empower’

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  • Posted on June 12, 2020June 12, 2020

By Mosarrap H Khan
Kirti Sengupta, Anu Majumdar and Dustin Pickering’s Hibiscus: Poems that heal and empower encapsulates the role and duty of a poet in times of pandemic in much the same way Pushkin imagined doing it: by empowering us to think beyond death.

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Two Poems by Amrita Sharma

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  • Posted on June 8, 2020

By Amrita Sharma
I wrote our names upon each rock,
Of luminous screens and flashing slates,
In blacks and whites and thousand fonts,
That morphed along a tenuous carve.

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Poem: Taking a Knee for George Floyd

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  • Posted on May 31, 2020June 5, 2020

By Umang Kumar
This is how it kills, George
like a knee on the neck
bearing down
to crush you
constricting breath

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Poem: Calcutta Shop

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  • Posted on May 30, 2020June 5, 2020

By Sekhar Banerjee
Calcutta is hermaphrodite like a red hibiscus
or a tomato or pumpkin or a horse chestnut

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Two Poems by Anjana Ramanathan

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  • Posted on May 24, 2020June 5, 2020

By Anjana Ramanathan
For all I have are my feet,
I go, where they go,
If I die on the way,
We have together reached paradise.

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