I earnestly hope in the 64 poems included in Indomitable Draupadi readers will not only find food for thought, but I earnestly hope that these poems about the many Kurukshetra battles that women fight within their homes and in the world will resonate in the minds of the empathetic readers and remain with them for a long time.
Using the tropes of the seasons in her poems, Ananya Chatterjee has dealt with human relationships and nature interchangeably. The robin-abandoned Gulmohar and the heartbroken human are the same. By doing so, she has given what is transient in the human world a semblance of permanence of the natural world.
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