Author: Moumita Alam

A Queen of the Safety Pins

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...'

She tries to heal. But the cotton balls that she put on her wounds after those dark encounters of childhood only grow with time.

An encounter with Islamophobia that cut a deep wound in my teenage psyche, and forever changed the way I view the game of cricket.

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