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.
Home is where the heart is. In this piece, Sanchita Dwivedi fast forwards her life by a few decades and imagines herself revisiting the familiar surroundings of her house, reliving the memories that once formed everyday 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.
“I am not only leaving a house I have lived in for eleven years; I am also vacating a country I have been in for fifteen.” Parth Pandya writes on what it means to be relocating to India with his family after having lived in the U.S. for a decade and a half.
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.
Do you remember your first home? The place where you could do whatever you felt like. The place where life was a bliss. Leaving that place would have been so painful. Raghu Sarangarajan talks about a person leaving his first home.
THE LOUNGE | TURN OF THE PAGE Anupama Krishnakumar reviews Perumal Murugan’s “Pyre”, translated from Tamil by Aniruddhan Vasudevan.
At a soldier’s home, his family waits longingly for his return. Rajlakshmi Pillai pens a poem that highlights the emotions of a soldier’s journey back home.