by admin | Aug 5, 2021 | Guest Blog, Poetry & Creativity
A fragment from a recent conversation with a frontline worker, ‘…I just feel unable to come out of shielding…. I don’t think I’m ever going to feel like myself again…’ There is a profound sense of hopelessness in her and as we sit quietly I can feel not just her...
by admin | Aug 5, 2021 | Blog
‘A song of silence’ a poem by Dr Ananta Dave… ‘Around me, between the dialling of 999 and the hoarse, laboured breaths, The blare of a siren And the chugging of an engine, Between the laughter of togetherness And the sighs of relief, The anguished cries of the bereft...
by admin | Aug 5, 2021 | Blog
When I was growing up in India as a teenager in 1980s Mumbai (Bombay as it was called then), a ghazal (a form of rhyming love poetry) sung by the noted singer Pankaj Udhas had become famous and was on everyone’s lips. I would hear the song, ‘चिट्ठीआईहै’ (‘Chitthi...
