Vinita Agrawal writes a poem about the overwhelming thrill of the alien pleasures of a big city when she visited it for the first time. It’s about wanting to risk the forbidden adventures of everything unfamiliar…iconized by the metal bean structure.
The idea of home has undergone many changes in the last ten years for Lavanya Pathmanaban. A non-resident Indian, she tells us about the transition.
When people move out of India to live abroad, they unconsciously carry their motherland as memories and wear their Indian-ness like an outer skin, points out Indu Parvathi through her poem that touches upon transporters – the people who carry their motherland abroad and try to recreate it in foreign locales.
Sudha Nair tells the story of a young couple who celebrate their first Holi away from home.
Inspired by what she has heard from her brother about the town of Acre during his brief stay there, Albanian poet, Alisa Velaj pens a poem about a little girl who aspires to become a poetess.
A 21-year-old who has moved overseas to study finds herself on the threshold of freedom – for the first time – and she can’t wait to lap it all up. But is it going to be as thrilling as she expected? Rrashima Swaarup Verma tells the story.
For Devanshi Khetarpal, ‘Beyond India: From Around the world’ doesn’t just refer to countries in the geographical sense; it means how humans are transposed to different places in the tiny spaces of their minds and how volatile our imagination can be as to how we construe the meaning of being in a ‘place’. ‘The Waves’ is her poetic take about lost, undiscovered places.
Losing one’s mother tongue to a foreign language is Love’s labour lost, opines Amitabh Vikram, presenting his thoughts through a poem.
