Independence Day by Manash Bhattacharjee
Independence Day
(15th August, 1947)The day had turned out to be
A feast for vultures
Every Muslim and Hindu body
Was Parsi in deathThe gods fled the streets...
Exile by Manash Bhattacharjee
Exile“I rested my mouth on your memory”
~ Yannis Ritsos, from Diaries of ExileNight arrives like a cart
You push it with motionless hands
There is darkness
But...
Evening Light
Evening LightBrave bat in a bowler hat
Blood shot eyes question
What time does this light
Depart?The light descends elsewhere
Its shadow rising here
The bat changes into an...
Haiku on Kathmandu Earthquake by Sudeep Sen
Kathmandu Earthquakea prayer for NepalGods came tumbling down
in Bhaktapur. Everest
churned — snow, debris, death. Sudeep Sen’s prize-winning books include: Postmarked India: New & Selected Poems...
Syria by Ghayth Armanazi
SUFFER THE COUNTRYSuffer the curled up corpses of the tortured
Suffer the cluttered ranks of the bound and the beaten
Suffer the pleading eyes of those...