'War is an adult game / Where no one wins / Everyone loses / Where you and I are the victims.'
Author: Moumita Alam

A Monthly Cloud Burst
A poem on dysmenorrhea, the medical term for painful menstrual cycles.

For My Teacher, Gauri Lankesh (To the Bullets Which Failed To Kill Her)
Gauri Lankesh was shot dead on September 5, 2017, on Teachers' day. This poem is a tribute to Lankesh.

August – The Month of Death
This poem is about my birthday, my country's birthday, the flag politics and the wound that never heals.

Living Without a Surname
This poem is about what it means to be a mother of a Muslim child in today's India.

For Whom Death Never Barks
The poem is about the collective failure to see the deaths of all people as equal.

For Afreen Fatima
A poem in protest against the bulldozing of the house of anti-CAA activist Afreen Fatima.