Category: Poetry

MY VILLAGERS

29th October 2018 2 Comments

I love you, You are so good! You pledge your life For a square meal, Day you toil and night You sleep and populate, Evening

I SELL FLESH NO MORE

8th September 2018 3 Comments

Gone were the days When men swarmed her hut, And passed metamorphic nights. She was a peerless beauty, Tall and stout, and an elusive

AN OLD MAN ON A WOODEN BRIDGE

7th July 2018 8 Comments

An Old Man on a Wooden Bridge An old man sat on an old wooden bridge amid the forest deep Beneath ran a hidden mossy

RHAPSODIES OF A TWILIGHT

11th May 2018 1 Comment

A twilight scene at Kadambini Tea Estate planted long long ago by the colonial masters. Birds sang, the sun sank, and tribal men went hutwards.

“KUNJNAGAR”

10th May 2018 19 Comments

At Kunjanagar beside the potholed street stood I at blazing sunset lone. The orange cloudlets scattered the western horizon. Slowly evening descended, and tiny dew

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"A gifted writer"

A gifted versetile writer who writes excellent stories and poems on the invisibles, pariahs, margins, aged, weaklings of our society. A rising star on the literary firmament.

Praise for my writing

“Your story Undersell left me with a lump in my throat, so did your poem, He also lights candles.”

Praise for my poem "Elderly Men Two"

"A finely honed observational piece recording the minutiae of everyday life. Rendered with the author’s customary poetic aplomb suffused with a Borges like quality of the mythic."