Barzakh
A poignant poem, stressing on the meaninglessness of the Palestinian lives, in life or afterlife, using the untimely deaths of two minors Zeinab & Khadija.
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Omar Yaghi
It is an address to 2025 Nobel Prize winner Palestinian-American Omar Yaghi. The poet questions if his discovery has any impact on his land and its people.
The Pied Piper of Indore
A satirical poem focusing on the plight of the patients in Indore hospital where 'rats swarmed like humans on new born babies.'
The Measure of Pain
It's a moving poem. It arrests the unquenchable thirst of the poet to measure the pain of the world using some notable historical and mythical figures with poetic precision.
Adorno in Gaza
It's a powerful poem that attests to the suffering of the Gaza by comparing Gaza genocide to Auschwitz holocaust through the eyes of Theodor W. Adorno. It captures unspeakable pains of the Palestinians through compelling images.
Another year has passed
Months go, years go, but our sun has not come out of the clouds.
Who are they ?
Where are they queuing, standing on fragile limbs
Squatting calmly on the floor, feeding babies, massaging dry bones?
How A Man Is Undone
It attests to how effortlessly, how easily, just with a click of a mouse, a woman or a man in India can be undone.
Sunday Morning Scene
It records the daily life of the Murshidabadi day labourers. They come from nearby villages to the town for work. Some day, they are hired. They have no way but to return home in empty hands on many days.
Sand-Eating Humans: A Chronicle of Hunger
Should people eat sand or clay out of hunger?
In our stories,
grandmothers have enough anecdotes
in which mothers would put stones in a boiling pot
the sound would act as lullaby
for screaming bellies