A poem which reflects on how many mothers, bound by societal norms, choose to ignore their child's struggle.
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Clay Diyas on Diwali
A poem on what ordinary days actually mean.
Book Review: An Invitation to Strengthen the Debate on Middle Class Working Women
In Nilanjana Bhowmick's, 'Lies Our Mothers Told Us: The Indian Woman’s Burden' the protagonists are middle-class women who have been lying to their daughters about 'having it all' with …
Day by Day, My Mother Is Ageing
Perhaps I will grow to become a woman and age to become a mother and I’ll die to prove myself as a mortal.
Fourth Wave Feminists
A poem from the perspective of a fourth-wave feminist i.e. the poet, and her worries for the future generation of feminists.
Exaggerated Complaints
A poem about the author's strained relationship with his mother.
A Study on Aai and Her Motherhood
'To think that I spent three quarters of a year inside her belly. Breathing inside her. Moving inside her. Becoming inside her.'
On Passing by His Mother’s Home
A poem that resulted from the author riving past his old family home that now lies locked.
How To Be Gentle, to My Son in the Past
This poem is a vocalization of the internal and external voices that played into the poet's body as she interacted with her newborn grandchild.
Depression Through the Eyes of a Naive Child
The person that I loved and adored the most in the world was suffering, and I was a helpless onlooker.