For the past three years, Bakul Banerjee had the privilege of performing Hindu pujas in one of the temples in Chicago, becoming an official woman priest in the US. The deafening noise created by the large number of devotees when worshipping Goddess Durga was a challenge. In this poem, she attempts to articulate her experience with letting go of distractions.
A woman struggles with the memories of a man unleashed each time she hears a song of his that she has recorded. What is it that she has to let go? Parth Pandya’s poem tells you more.
A little boy in Saikat Das’s poem is fascinated by a butterfly and does something that’s sure to bring a smile to your face. Read on.
Saikat Das writes a poem structured in the form of an intimate talk with the main character of the film Piku. The poem draws a parallel between the film and the real life experience of the narrator and points out that life is also a movie that is scripted by the divine director.
This poem by Parminder Singh is about how a simpleton changes into a man with urban hues, thanks to the influence of the multiplex culture.
The poem attempts to implicitly show the hypocritical mind-set of a youth whose ingrained sexist outlook betrays his liberal façade. Sunaina uses the movie as a vehicle to bring forth the latent desire of the boy to control his beloved’s life. Sometimes, the reel also becomes real.
Anupama Krishnakumar writes about the fun moments on her way back home with the kids after she has picked them up from school.
M.Mohankumar’s poem is about a housemaid who throws in a word or two in English in between conversations, sometimes to unfortunately comical results.
