The guilt of betrayal throbs like a wound, ushers withdrawal and carves a path of endless wait for deliverance for a man. However, as time passes by, he stops looking for deliverance because he learns how immune his guilt is to justifications. Anupam writes the man’s story in verse.
There’s someone behind the door and he is hiding something. What could that be? Anupama Krishnakumar’s poem will tell you more.
Sarba Roy’s poem is a country’s voice, prodding us to remember what we’re losing and what we can have. It’s her way of reminding how she is the greatest provider, sustaining us even in the unlikeliest of places and the unlikeliest of ways.
Anupam’s poem is a lament, a call to the people of a country perceived to have potential for greatness but ridden with flaws that forever keep that greatness a dream. Out of many such flaws, this poem focuses on our inability to overcome differences in geography and mind.
Chandramohan Nair, belonging to the first generation born after Independence, finds little solace in the current state of the country but hopes that we might yet rediscover the idealism of the independence movement.
In his poem, Parikshit Ketkar metaphorically writes about one’s desire to be acknowledged for what one is, irrespective of the social survival requirements pointing towards some other way.
The sleeping face of his daughter prompts a man to recall certain flaws from his past. He fears that life may recover his debts from an innocent soul and finally clamours for atonement while confronting his insecurities about the future and in the process trying to fathom the nuances of retribution. A poem by Anupam Patra.
Avantika Singhal’s first poem is about the thoughts that rose in her mind after experiencing a mild earthquake in her hometown, Jaipur. Her second poem is about dreams and how it sometimes becomes impossible to see them fulfilled.
