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Book Review: Basudhara Roy’s ‘Stitching a Home’

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  • Posted on July 8, 2021

By Gopal Lahiri
Basudhara Roy’s ‘Stitching a Home’ is no doubt an important collection of poems, one to applaud for its beautiful craft, its display of skill and its light formed of longing.

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Poem: She

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  • Posted on July 4, 2021

By Resmi Prakash
Every day 
I walk past 
wondering ways to tell 
her,
as she waves in the 
winter breeze. 

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Book Review: Acharya, Pradip and Jyotirmoy Prodhani (Transl) ‘This Land This People’

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  • Posted on June 18, 2021

By Gita Viswanath
This Land This People contains translations of more than hundred poems by seventy-one Rajbanshis poets, a marginalized community within the already marginalized and mistakenly homogenized population of the Northeast.

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Poem: ‘Ganga Aamar Ma’ – Ganga is my mother

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  • Posted on June 15, 2021

By Umang Kumar
what need of ceremony, 
when the ritual of life
is over?

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Two Poems by Nayyar Hilal

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  • Posted on June 3, 2021

By Nayyar Hilal
In the Dal water has turned to blood –
I tried to write with it but
my hands are trapped in barbed wires.

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Poem: Tiresias delivers prophecy for the cynics!

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  • Posted on May 27, 2021

By Sunil Sharma
We are the fodder, the 99 percenters, for the one percenters of the world – chants the massive crowds in the old public squares, the world over.

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Five Poems by Ashley Tellis

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  • Posted on May 25, 2021

By Ashley Tellis
I wanted to trace the veins on your forearms,
lick your pallid skin, hear your blood gurgling
through the green trees across your chest, barely covered
by that tight shirt, its buttons bursting.

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Book Review: Gopal Lahiri’s ‘Alleys are Filled with Future Alphabets’

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  • Posted on May 16, 2021May 16, 2021

By Nishi Pulugurtha
What comes out clearly through the poems in the volume is a keen eye, of being able to look beyond the obvious, of reaching out into the known and the unknown.

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Poem: Olive of Palestine and Kashmir

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  • Posted on May 14, 2021

By Quratulain Qureshi
So, while we pray for your olives of Filastin to flourish,
We ask you to pray for the olive of Kasheer to wither.

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Poem: Delhi on Fire

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  • Posted on May 12, 2021

By Gabriel Rosenstock
Mr. Modi
can you see the air through the smoke?

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Two Poems by Swati Moheet Agrawal

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  • Posted on May 9, 2021

By Swati Moheet Agrawal
but the only time she will believe
she’s beautiful is,
when it is said by
the man she loves;

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In Quest of Syncretism: Two Poems by Mitali Chakravarty

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  • Posted on April 22, 2021

By Mitali Chakravarty
Can wrecking, destroying
erase an ideal, revive the dead,
rewrite the past?

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Two Poems by Basudhara Roy

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  • Posted on April 1, 2021

By Basudhara Roy
She lost thirst, her throat
turning brittle like fish bones in the sun

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Three Poems by Isha Singh

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  • Posted on March 22, 2021

By Isha Singh
But the country changed, when we weren’t out on the streets,
Fighting for its soul.
Some came and changed its soul to a bituminous one
And now poison runs in its veins.

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Book Review: Madhu Sriwastav’s ‘Trips Climbs Circles’ and Paramita Mukherjee Mullick’s ‘The Golden Window’

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  • Posted on March 12, 2021

By Nishi Pulugurtha
As I traverse from one volume to the other, reading and re-reading, finding nuances and tracing patterns, I find an elegance of expression that surely bodes well for Indian Poetry in English.

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Two Poems by Sekhar Banerjee

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  • Posted on March 3, 2021

By Sekhar Banerjee
An empty palm in rain does not hold
anything back; it returns
privacy for privacy, water for water,
solitude for solitude like a forlorn prayer-wheel
left in the courtyard

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Three Poems by Sanjeev Sethi

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  • Posted on February 24, 2021February 24, 2021

By Sanjeev Sethi
I tried holding a smoke-filled room
in my palm while you ran out of reefers.

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Two Poems by Mitali Chakravarty

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  • Posted on January 26, 2021

By Mitali Chakravarty
The skyline fades. The sun yo-yos in play
but, manmade borders, they stay.
Forever slay. Weeping Guernicas
line Kurukshetras and Ayodhyas.

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Book Review: Jaydeep Sarangi’s ‘Heart Raining the Light: Poems Composed at Jhargram, Kolkata and Beyond’

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  • Posted on January 20, 2021

By Nishi Pulugurtha
Weaving expressions, images and feelings brilliantly the poems in this volume add to Jaydeep Sarangi’s poetic oeuvre.

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Two Poems by Azhar Uddin Sahaji

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  • Posted on January 18, 2021

By Azhar Uddin Sahaji
Abba doesn’t understand poetry and identity
He still continues to run that old shop.

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