Ghumtawalli,
Entering the classroom
Of Gender Studies
From the back door
Secretly, stealthily
To see
How their life is filmed
In foreign countries?
Similar Posts
Dalit,
Who a Dalit,Searching the themeFound I,I them reallyDalit, Dalit,The widows,Poor women and daughtersOf IndiaWhose income is very lowAnd they unable to maintain themselves.
How to resolve them
Of life and the world,The myths of the dark daughterDark and mythicalJust as the figurines and sculpturesOn the outer temple wallsJust as the terracotta platesOf clay baked and set upon?
Gender bias,
How do we?How longWill youGo on subjecting herTo gender humiliation?That,That you are a woman,A womanThat,That you a girl,A girlThat,That you are a female,A female.
Light, why do you not go to those homes
Where the light is not?Light, light you those dark cornersWhere there is darkness all around the place.
My pain only my heart,
Knows it,My pain,PainOnly God,God knows itAnd how,How much pained am I,Am I at heart,You do not,Do not knowNor,Nor did you care,Care to know about!
One who does not know to talk with others,
That rustic fellow from the countryside,I mean the hamlets and thorpsToo a minister.Uncultured and uneducated, illiterate and blunt,He has nothing to doRather than bluffing others,Bluffing and threatening,Looting money from the treasuryOn fraud vouchers and bills.On the bullock-cart sits he,On a billy goat,He plays the role of a herdsman,Turbaned and towelled,Going in his rustic way,A lathi…
The burqa-clad girl
Under the purdah
My Ph.D.
On Gender Studies,
A portrayal of
An introvert character,
An impression of an artist
Seen through the window,
Teer nazar, jakhmi jigar.
Similar Posts
Adi Shankaracharya
Love for his mother,Shiva-bhakta father,Foundation of the mathas,Wanderings as a sole sadhu,Realization of ShivaAs a kangal boy with the dogGoingStill conjure uponThe mind’s eyesWhen in a meditative strainOr thinking about his biography.
While bringing a cup of tea and offering me,
I love you,But repudiated not hospitality.The girl was as such,As such…I yearned within to say toBut a guest I could not.
Ph.D. on Jayanta Mahapatra,
How to do it?Jayanta Mahapatra: A Study In Imagery And Imagism,Poetry As Word-play: A Study In Jayanta Mahapatra,Poetry As Myth-making, Photography: A Study In Jayanta Mahapatra,Poetry as Physics, Physics As Poetry: A Study In Mahapatra’s Poetry,Jayanta Mahapatra: A Study In Relationship With Orissa,Notes of Feminism, Realism, Existentialism, Nothingness In Jayanta Mahapatra,Jayanta Mahapatra As An Essayist,…
Jadopatia,
The artist and his pata,Scrolls,Drawn and sketchedOn leavesOr on the wallsAs motifsReflected in,The rock carvings,Stone inscriptionsAs flowers, buds and imagesCarved, engraved,Leaves, flowers, buds,Animals, drums,Men and womenAs simple folk.
Without knowing culture, trend, tradition,
Guessing at least,Can one,I don’t know?If one is given a stanza from Dr.Arbuthnot,One may not all of a sudden,If one a stanza from Paradise LostWithout knowing the Biblical storyAnd Milton’s blindness,Can one?Can one Seamus Heaney’s political poemsDealing with the Irish political movement,Can one Yeats without knowing background,Can one Eliot without knowing allusions and references?
What is poetry, if ask you, I shall say,
The images and reflectionsOf Kali, Durga, Lakshmi and Saraswati,The Motherly ConsciousnessIncarnating as to annihilate and lessen sin on earthIn the form of Kali, representing anger and wrath againstAnd as Durga the Battle-queen,Representing Valour, the clash and jingle of swords.In my poetry, make I the images of Kali, Durga, Lakshmi and Saraswati,See I them making the…