Memories of journeys and voyages across the oceans, cultures and continents.
A poet sent her poem in response to the Nomad's Diary
These poems commemorate fatherhood by recalling childhood stories, bonds made over books and rivers, the onset of illness and the eventual loss of the father.
Short poems for a weekend read.
A poet's ode to the mother of their child.
These poems bring alive images of twinkling jasmine flowers and purple geraniums; mynahs and mockingbirds; guavas and grapefruits to make profound comments on...
Everybody—her parents, grandparents, uncles, aunts, children and the servants in the extended family—huddle around her on the carpet, enchanted by the...
Draupadi is one of Indian mythology’s strongest female characters. Has the disrobing shame maimed forever a spotless name? Must a new beginning encircle the...
In times of war, how do you divide your enemies? What happens when you keep the names of your small desires in your jacket’s pocket? At dusk, when darkness...
These poems spring from an unmistakable moral vein unspoiled by life’s unavoidable conflicts. The first two use metaphors of Dussehra’s Ravan, and an old,...
A sexual assault, visceral and violent, makes the victim determined to suffer it silently, in a society that prides itself on being ‘civilised’.
At a wildlife sanctuary, flamingo legs bloom pink roses over silver water. On a beautiful night, dark trees sigh and whisper as if in love. A quest to...
Of intertwined lives, sliced into two from one chord — together, yet unsewn, and each shoving away the other.
The poems in Sayan Aich Bhowmik’s collection, ‘I Will Come With A Lighthouse,’ reflect on the crisis of the soul and acknowledge the translated nature of...
Looking at honeysuckle in the US evokes a moment spent in grandmother’s garden in India when Madhumalti vine drooped from the weight of its red blossoms. A...
