Shruti Lahiri

Then why?

I belong to this side of the city,
I call it my own.
I am a memory to the other side,
But to me it is not unknown.

Why stands this precipice?
Between the two
The river flows,
Tearing the soil apart into two.

If so, then why does a bud blossom on this side
At the whistle of the cuckoo, from the other?

Dr. Shruti Lahiri

Dr. Shruti Lahiri is an Associate Professor of the Department of English (UG and PG) of Narasinha Dutt College, Howrah. West Bengal. Her area of interest is Gender Studies. Dr. Lahiri has co-edited a book Gender in Literature: Some Perspectives in the year 2015. She has solely edited a book The Cult of the Androgyne: Reflections in Life and Literature, Art and Religion in 2020. She has several National and International publications to her credit.