Sarala Balachandran

Sarala Balachandran was working with an import-export organisation in the administrative department for 38 years. She retired eleven years back. Married, with two sons aged 43 and 36, she took interest in writing recently. She writes free verses.

October 8, 2017
Sarala Balachandran
Poem

My Silence/ I Cherish a Leap of Love

Here are two poems by Sarala, in Different Truths. The first poem is inward-looking, a tribute to a mother. The second verse is an outward journey, where the poet...

September 4, 2017
Sarala Balachandran
Poem

Pain

The agony of an aged mother being sent to an old age home has been poignantly captured in verse, by Sarala, in Different Truths. Oh God how I cried...

July 19, 2017
Sarala Balachandran
Poem

Save the Women…

A woman-centric poem where a hapless rape victim becomes a saviour of the weak and the feeble, by Sarala, in Different Truths. Far away in that distant valley A...

June 11, 2017
Sarala Balachandran
Poem

Alone

An inward looking poem by Sarala, where she talks of loneliness and meeting the her creator, in Different Truths. Alone I walked throughout my life With no one to...

May 31, 2017
Sarala Balachandran
Poem

Two Cups of Grain…

A powerful poem from Sarala, which depicts the trials, tribulations and the joy of farmers, who starve to feed millions, in Different Truths. Let me write a poem gathering...

May 6, 2017
Sarala Balachandran
Poem

Those Blessed Urns…

A river has always been likened to journey. Sarala talks of the urns (with the mortal remains) floating in Sangam calmly. An evocative and poignant verse of the final...

May 3, 2017
Sarala Balachandran
Poem

Gaze Across the Shore

Sarala describes in great detail the goings-on at the seashore. While most things are transient, gazing across the shore is meditative. Here’s a poignant verse celebrating the beauty of...

April 24, 2017
Sarala Balachandran
Poem

Autism

Here’s a soulful poem about the innocent questions that an autistic child asks his mamma (mother). Sarala pens this poem in the month on autism awareness, for Different Truths....

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