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
Poverty
A Mamuli Event
It highlights the post-modern, post-truth way of life. Savagery of wealth coexists with the unbearable pains of the poor.
A Shirtless Man at a Graveyard
Then I saw the shirtless man at a far northern end of the graveyard. He was murmuring and looked sheepish. He collected a fistful of wet leaves and slowly spread them over a sunken grave covered with weeds and twigs. Now he was brushing his eyes, his head; now he was smiling comically.
A Tribal Mother
A poem on the the struggle and resilience of a tea tribal mother of Dooars, depicting the poverty and illness of her daily existence.