Kavita Ezekiel Mendonca

In a career spanning over four decades, Kavita Ezekiel Mendonca has taught English in Indian colleges, AP English in an International School in India, and French and Spanish in private schools in Canada. Her poems are featured in various journals and anthologies, including the Journal of Indian Literature published by the Sahitya Akademi and the Yearbook of Indian Poetry in English. Kavita has authored two collections of poetry.

March 2, 2023
Kavita Ezekiel Mendonca
Poem

The Only Way to Bring Him Back

In an enigmatic personal poem, Kavita recalls how her husband remembered his father – exclusively for Different Truths. For three weeks after his father died His son, now my...

January 9, 2023
Kavita Ezekiel Mendonca
Poem

Of Flaws and Gifts

An autobiographical poem by Kavita where she talks about her father, Nissim Ezekiel – exclusively for Different Truths. (After the late poet Nissim Ezekiel’s poem ‘I Met a Man...

December 23, 2022
Kavita Ezekiel Mendonca
Poem

Peace

Kavita’s poem on peace in the dark times is like a prayer that is meaningful with Christmas and New Year celebrations on. An exclusive for Different Truths. I dream...

March 8, 2021
Kavita Ezekiel Mendonca
Poem

The Ballad of Little Ma

Kavita, on International Women’s Day, pens a poem, dedicated to her grandmother, Leah Jacob. An exclusive for Different Truths. If measured correctly Little Ma was four feet, eleven inches...

January 30, 2021
Kavita Ezekiel Mendonca
Poem

Children of Terezin

In memory of the children of Terezin, the Nazi concentration camp in German-occupied Czechoslovakia, who planted a sapling at their campsite. This year, Holocaust Memorial Day (Jan 27) coincides...

October 8, 2020
Kavita Ezekiel Mendonca
Poem

Make Sunshine for the Hay

A poignant poem about nature, pandemic, and hope, by Kavita Ezekiel, exclusively for Different Truths. Woke up wondering what I would write todayWhat kind of meaningful words would come...