Tracing the Contours of Memory
Samantak Bhadra finds plenty to admire in an exciting debut collection from Shikha Malaviya.
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Just Before Birth
“A canvas/ empty of colour/ a body/ kissed by death.”
Poem of the Week (March 11), by Sukrita Paul Kumar.
Ambala
“She burst into my room dancing, humming,/ a force of nature, her dark skin gleaming,/ cleaving me with her beauty’s pulse.” Poem of the Week (March 4), by Shanta Acharya.
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Five Haiku
“Come winter and my caravan clamours./ A violet river flows/ lost in the mist-nets; I chew off time.” Five haiku by Nandini Sahu.
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Ghalib
“I alone survived/ to take down their corpses hanging/ from the trees, the lamp-posts…” Poem of the Week (February 11), by Abhay Kumar.
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Swiss Lace Blouse
“I will take a bath before noon./ The street will rapid blink/ at my doughy belly…” Poem of the Week (November 26), by Annie Zaidi.
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Spotlight Writer: Sudeep Sen
A comprehensive and wide-ranging discussion of Sudeep Sen’s work, in conversation with Ziaul Karim.
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In Memory of Kailashpati Nishad
“who could have thought/ that death would come like this –/ like a bird.” By Kedarnath Singh, translated from the Hindi by Rahul Soni.
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Camp X-Ray
“Sometimes on my knees, before the orange hood was raised, the blindfold bound, I faced the hills…” By Ravi Shankar.
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The Wailing Wall, Revisited
“Time had preserved/ memory,/ … Was I the same then/ as I am now?” By Sudeep Sen.
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