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Behind the Bars

Sunil talks about the caged life in a metropolis and the wish to break the fetters to merge with nature. An exclusive for Different Truths.

A tiny tot
looks at the flying birds
from behind the bars
of the grilled window
in a Mumbai
high-rise,

she
instantly

becomes one
with the blueness and
immensity of the element
eternal, fixed

and merges with the birds,

while waiting.

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Dr. Sunil Sharma
A humble word-worshipper: catcher of elusive sounds, meanings and images. Published 27 creative and critical books--- joint and solo. A winner of, among others, the Panorama Golden Globe Award-2023, and, Nissim Award for Excellence-2022 for the novel Minotaur. His poems were included in the prestigious UN project: Happiness: The Delight-Tree: An Anthology of Contemporary International Poetry, 2015. Editor of the monthly Setu journal (English):

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