Poetry
Autumn 2004
The Sutradhar: Narrator of Fragments from Family Sagas
On a day like this I do not know Why I suddenly think back on my sister-in-law's wedding. Perhaps it is because I am turning the pages of Kunapipi, Reading […]
Poetry
Spring 1998
Chicago
for Meenakshi Mukherjee I couldn’t climb the tallest building in Chicago That I now regret I needed a new view of this continent Wanted, yes, to view it from every […]
Poetry
Spring 1996
Pilgrimages
For Parvati Homer Vanniasinkam The tragedy is that you never knew, never wanted to know me, was it because even in the past we had taken different routes, the confluent […]
Poetry
Spring 1996
My Guru
My husband's people have always had gurus. I have never had one but was expected To manage on my own, chant my own Vedas. Gurus have so many holy […]
Poetry
Autumn 1994
Fire in the Village: Kangra Painting from Tira-Sujanpur
PLATE 28—(Kangra Valley Painting) Where do they go for the night, the ordinary people, Houses on fire, the sky pitch and the blaze orange-red parrot Beaked flames bright among the […]