‘If tomorrow comes, I will be the ash-heap of today’: Poems of enquiry into self and personhood

[ad_1] North WindThe heat roars on. It is the defensive voice of paternal authority. The cold perhaps is the temptress. Thatbitch. With a crude, carefully crafted, lethal power. You know it will sting you. Still you want to touch it....

‘We can remake this world’: This book of poems travels through places where people rise in protest

[ad_1] In Praise of Azaadi(after Bertolt Brecht)It’s simple,anyone can grasp it.It requires no forceor violence.The exploiters tell usto sell, borrow and buy it;pandits and priestsdisguise it with dogma;tyrants call it “sedition”.It is against buying, selling,debt and dogma –and “sedition” shedsall...

Ramnath’s book of Urdu poetry Bas Yun Hi is a culmination of his fascination for the language and verse

[ad_1] Words rush into verse, tumble into rhyme and flow into poems. Ramnath could put pen to paper and come up with verse on any subject. After several years of wordplay, versification and journalling, the Chennai based multi-lingual chartered accountant,...