Author: Moumita Alam

My Mother Language

A poem on International Mother Language Day, and the author's relationship with Kamtapuri.

Did Sylvia Plath lose words on February 11?

A poem on how women are often taught to cover every inch of our bodies.

A poem on how India is witnessing an erosion of constitutional values that could have made us a successful Republic.

This poem is like a letter to Rohith Vemula. A letter of how things are still the same but somewhere we still have hope to overcome, to write our …

While we celebrate the arrival of a new year, hundreds of people are losing their homes due to a massive eviction drive by the Assam government.

A poem lamenting the path India finds itself on, where political parties spinning communal narratives continue to win elections.

A poem marking 30 years of the Babri Masjid demolition.

A poem on the day my sister and I were forced to grow up.

'In the memories of her adolescence / A desperate fly always tries to fly...'

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