SUTAPA CHAUDHURI Home Thoughts: Poetry of the British Indian Diaspora Eds. Usha Kishore & Jaydeep Sarangi, Cyberwit, 2017. 123pp.ISBN 978-93-85945-71-7. INR 200, US$ 14.99 Home Thoughts is a collection of poems by eight widely anthologised contemporary poets of the British Indian Diaspora, featuring the works of Shanta Acharya, Debjani Chatterjee, Mona Dash, Bashabi Fraser, Kavita…
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The Game called Hearts: A Review of Sea Dreams
JAYDEEP SARANGI Sea Dreams Bibhu Padhi, Authorspress, New Delhi, 2017.145pp. ISBN 978-93-5207-484-6. INR 200. Sea Dreams is Bibhu Padhi’s eleventh book of poetry. Padhi’s poems have appeared in distinguished magazines throughout the English-speaking world, such as, The Poetry Review, Stand, The Rialto, The American Scholar, Colorado Review, Mid-American Review, Poetry (Chicago), The Southwest Review, The…
SOMASHREE ROY
1st year, English Honours, Loreto College, Calcutta University The Wandering Soul The retreat center is still there,Beside the lake of thousand fears,And there she roams claiming so far ;That she wasn’t a bitch in this lavishing world. Thus is the story of every girl,Devoid of hundreds of devils here.Unwrapped are the emotions of the pretty…
ADRIKA ROY
1st year, English Honours, Loreto College, Calcutta University My Poem It has stopped starling me? NoSolitude is pleasurableBut for eternity is a curse !Curse indeed is the life itself ,The eminent question I askIs everything in me evil?Evil if soDon’t evil deserved to be loved?Or is love the curse itself?Tantalising is the thoughtIsn’t it?Well don’t…
MARISHA SINGH
1st year, English Honours, Loreto College, Calcutta University Not Anymore. This constipated existence has nettled me enough.This whole society and its norms are a bluff.These people and their rotting cultureTo Their sense of wrong and right I have all this while hungOnly to find it was all rotten junk. I fell for a man once…
SHARMISTHA DEY
1st year, English Honours, Loreto College, Calcutta University My Handsome Guitarist “Your eyes are really very beautiful.”That one sentence made me fall for you.Your splendid way of mixing up with everyone,Helped me make you my Mr. Perfect one.Your eyes,your smile and most importantly your voice,Impelled me,to make you my quintessential choice.The way you sing,the way…
SUNWRITA DASTIDAR
1st Year, English Honours, Miranda House, Delhi University I’m No Stranger to You… I’m no stranger to you, forest-eyed jealousyYou cling to the back of my cold neckWhispering poison into my earI swallow it, choking silently on my own fear I’m no stranger to you, ice-eyed lonelinessYou feed on the tears that fall from my…
My Vocation in an apartheid Church
BAMA I was 27 when I decided to become a religious sister. I was then working as a teacher in a High School in one of the educationally backward districts of northern Tamil Nadu. I was a good teacher and I took very special interest in students from poor and marginalized communities like dalits. I…
SONALI SARKAR
Enigmatic Pacific Deep blue waters of the Pacificseem unfathomable and enigmatic.Wading in it makes you feel blessed,Touching the sublime waters gives youthe warmth of love that is divine,Watching the waves splash over the rocksgives you a moment of quiet introspection,Feeling the moving waters touch the forlornshores of your mind,Takes you back to the past—-You hear…
KETAKI DATTA
Lens of Positivity After incessant patter of rainsThe greenery around sprang back to life,The birds trilled in full-throated ease,The sky donned a bluish jacket,The woollen balls of spun cloudsSurfaced once again,Hovering over,Hanging loose,At one corner. After the night of morbid blues,Of pell-mell snorkelingdown the sea,The diver came up dog-tired,Sat on the beach, relaxedover a cocktail…