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.
Visuals from Different Truths
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.
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