Free speech in India is increasingly becoming difficult, with so much discontent and oppression surrounding writers’ words and content on the media and the Internet. Harman Mavi expresses the Indian censor’s attitude in verse.
Parenting is no easy task and at every stage of the child’s life, the job only gets harder, says Parth Pandya in his poem.
Amitabh Vikram writes a poem on the people who live in the hills, forgotten most of the time, and remembered only during the time of elections.
Corporate workspaces today are all about following rules, making things rather monotonous to the point of people feeling disillusioned about the whole process. Nandagopal T pens a poem on the lackluster lives of the zombies of the corporate world.
Inspired and moved by what he has read in ‘The Diary of a Young Girl’, M. Mohankumar writes a poem that invokes powerful images of the life of Anne Frank along with her family in their hideout during World War II. 2015 marks the seventieth anniversary of the liberation of the concentration camps.
Vinita Agrawal writes a poem about the overwhelming thrill of the alien pleasures of a big city when she visited it for the first time. It’s about wanting to risk the forbidden adventures of everything unfamiliar…iconized by the metal bean structure.
When people move out of India to live abroad, they unconsciously carry their motherland as memories and wear their Indian-ness like an outer skin, points out Indu Parvathi through her poem that touches upon transporters – the people who carry their motherland abroad and try to recreate it in foreign locales.
Inspired by what she has heard from her brother about the town of Acre during his brief stay there, Albanian poet, Alisa Velaj pens a poem about a little girl who aspires to become a poetess.
For Devanshi Khetarpal, ‘Beyond India: From Around the world’ doesn’t just refer to countries in the geographical sense; it means how humans are transposed to different places in the tiny spaces of their minds and how volatile our imagination can be as to how we construe the meaning of being in a ‘place’. ‘The Waves’ is her poetic take about lost, undiscovered places.