Sunaina Jain’s poem traverses the feelings of the speaker as she throws away the vestiges of propriety and hypocritical social norms by discarding a failed marital relationship. The rain has been used as a motif to wash away the negativity of her married life and embrace life-affirming beauty surrounding her, helping restore her lost self.
Saranyan’s poem is about the wasted emotion called revenge: for some, rains become targets of revenge rather than something to be enjoyed at leisure.
We all leave our homes to look for better opportunities, explore other lives and fulfil our ambitions. However, somewhere deep inside us stays fledgling remains of worlds we call our home. ARTOHUS writes a poem that reflects on the nostalgia one feels for home when one is away from it.
From the window of a new house, occupied briefly to transform it into a home with sundry ceremonies, the narrator observes a Silver Oak magnanimously offer itself as a space to be. Anna Chandy’s poem is about another notion of home.
Pitambar Naik’s poem rues the debilitating effect that urbanization has had on the homes of millions of people.
Sunaina Jain’s poem captures a yearning for the lost ‘home’ and is filled with reminiscences of childhood memories spent in a countryside home. It is also an indictment of the spirit-crushing, maddening and monotonous city life.
The theme of pain, withdrawal, longing run amuck in this poem by Purabi. It brings along the memories of the people the poet has mingled with, the rain soaked Shillong, its hills and then leaving the land. The belief of returning to the land remains even if it means in the form of a carcass.
A man returns home decades after he had left it to fulfill his own and his parents’ dream. But in the contest to “become someone”, much has been lost. Parminder Singh’s poem brings to the fore, the thoughts of the man who left behind his home to chase a dream.
