When Indian Muslim are called "Hamas" or equalled to Palestinians, it triggers among members of the community, all of the recent traumas.
Author: Moumita Alam
The Light That Peeps in Through the Holes: Two Poems on Rat-Hole Miners
'We are bound by our sweat, oppression and precarity...This is our title in India, sir.'
Muslims On Trains
My bhabi scoops out each beard / Till my brother screams in pain / She is terrified if someone / Finds her husband's name!
Book Review: The Tale of Displaced Homes and Everlasting ‘Hunger’
Is Hunger a name? If yes, then whose name is this? The name of a person? Class or Society? Or Country? Author Dhruba Jyoti Borah tries to find the answer.
Metamorphosis : A Poem for Umar Khalid
My dreams have transmuted into a state's bargain / And you, my comrade, must have kept the dreams alive.
The King and His Kingdom
Silence is the food he has been feeding since 2002. / He knows the power of silence. / It kills more than the bullets.
It’s 1941 to 1943 or 2023…
Books are always burnt before / humans are put into the gas chamber - / A prelude. A Starter.
Living in Two Language Zones
A poem for a friend living in Kashmir.
I Wish You Rage!
A poem on International Women's Day questioning why women are taught that anger is forbidden.