Poetry
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मैं अलग हूँ, कैसे? तुमने पूछा | मैंने तुम्हें लौटाया, खाली हाथ, बैरंग, छूछा | मेरा प्रेम बद्ध…
Boys standing up to their fathers are invitations to patriarchy When boys become men it is marked by celebratory loud…
I look at you, a warm embrace, with arms, eyes, mind, heart and soul. You look at me, eyes…
Sharp and evocative, Kalki Koechlin’s spoken-word poem The Printing Machine lays bare the cycle of ceaseless and desensitised consumption engendered by the media. Kalki’s short and hard-hitting sentences, keys tap-tap-tapping, and the chrrs and grrs of printing machines bring out the urgency and sensationalism media narratives embody, turning incidents of violence into a stream of headlines that make us gasp and forget, gasp and forget.
In the video section, watch Tishani Doshi perform one of her most haunting and popular poems ‘Girls Are Coming Out of the Woods’. Using the movements of/in body, music and language, it is a powerful expression of Tishani’s expansive vision of resistance, freedom and solidarity in the face of violence.
I gargle away the itch in the tonsils accompanying this persistent flu.
Note: Travelling is a poem by Eunice de Souza. I find it impossible to read a poem without layering it…
You held my hand, we hugged each other / I was lost in your love, wanting to go further
1. A Certain Type of Life since the age of 16 I idealised a certain type of life involving certain…
I would once again be theirs, in memory, on the day my lover would die.
The film has all the makings and trimmings of a commercial thriller – a dynamic story, song and dance, an action-packed climax – and at the same time, it is a cinephile’s film.