Poetry as Sanctuary – A column where we explore poetry as a means of expression for voices of the South Asian Diaspora. (Featured Image: Lalit Kumar skydiving) I am fascinated with adventure sports and I happen to like poetry. While adventure sports push us out of our...
Love come, go away like curtains you fall back and forward in the golden hour of the darker lights hidden, open, quiet breathe, you’re loud, soft to touch hold me against your skin if only our eyes linger blue, your footsteps reside and awake like waves between our...
IC held its third Desi Poetry Reading, in collaboration with Matwaala, on December 3, 2020, which was moderated by Srishti Prabha and Kanchan Naik. The topic was certainly timely – Uncertainty and Change. After a quick introduction by Pramila Venkatewaran, the...
What makes you a poet? Reena Kapoor’s debut book of poetry, Arrivals & Departures: Journeys in Poems makes this question even more relevant. Consider poetry a result of meditation, of thoughts, ideas, and memories that collect in the mind through observation....
In the pandemic of 2020, when the world went into lockdown, one Indian lady who is above 80 years of age, engaged herself in making videos on Indian culture, mythology, and literature from her apartment in San Francisco. Her name is Mrs. Harsha Watts and she is my...
