-after Miguel James If I write a poem against the CAA and the NRC,that poem will be a love poem.And if I write a poem about Chandra Shekhar Azad leading a march in Daryaganj in support of the constitution and…
Poems about the dark times.
-after Miguel James If I write a poem against the CAA and the NRC,that poem will be a love poem.And if I write a poem about Chandra Shekhar Azad leading a march in Daryaganj in support of the constitution and…
Go fix your gaze on the setting sun, or even a welder’s torch: the damage you suffer may result in blurred vision or blind spots. Your eyes will heal, but for a while, when you study a budding tree you…
When right wing thugsattack members of a religious minority in broad daylightin a nation’s capitalwhile the police look onor join in the attacks,that is not a ‘riot’,that is a pogrom. And when armed men in uniformforce their way into homes,…
Friends, these are confusing times and everywhere I go I hear people using words in confusing ways—it’s like we’re living in some kind of twisted fever dream or a second rate postmodern language poem. In Kashmir, torture has long been…