3 Poems
HYDERABAD, INDIA Well. I tried. Entered these into a competition. Didn’t win said competition like I had assumed I wouldn’t. Not being pessimistic/fatalistic/unboombastic, just realistic.
Faces of Gujurat
GUJARAT, INDIA As the autowallah maneuvered his vehicle through the clogged arteries of the old city, he decided to break the silence with an offhand
Against Forgetting
BANGALORE > COONOOR, INDIA “The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting” Milan Kundera’s oft quoted statement kept slipping in
Munsiari 2016 – Part 2 – [People]
MUNSIARI, INDIA “The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their
Munsiari 2016 – Part 1 – [Green]
MUNSIARI, INDIA When the axe came into the woods, many of the trees said, “At least the handle is one of us” R. L. Stine
Compassion
HYDERABAD, INDIA 1) 58.85% of new leprosy cases in the world are in India. 2) 1.27 lakhs new cases of leprosy were reported in India