Split, scattered, scarce they are,
the houses, the hotels, the temples…
Alive, animated, throbbing, inhabited once they were,
now ruined, destroyed, doomed .
The injured, the lost, the...
The weak afternoon sun, after traversing the whole sky could just somehow manage to disperse few slanting rays. Though they enveloped this vast maze...
Had there been a parameter
Whereby to scale the length and breadth
Of a country,
We’d have ascertained where our identities ended.
Yet there are places –
No Man’s...
I.
In the shadows of my lonely days
Among the icicles of frigid darkness
I looked into your eyes
For an embalmed touch....
Like a steamed kettle over-burnt
You shrugged...
Mainstream Indian literature and culture, until very recently, was limited by the marked absence of any significant representation of the Dalit experience. Although not...
She was conceived,
with happiness in mind,
but her family did not,
turnout to be so kind.
Seeing her the first time,
the happiness of her mother did sublime,
And...
