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Unlace me,let my body breathe .This burden of clothing mocks back at me,this shield of guilt that you said would be my a...
13/09/2016

Unlace me,
let my body breathe .

This burden of clothing mocks back at me,this shield of guilt that you said would be my armour mom ,this coating which didn't reveal an inch of my figure was ripped apart to pieces in seconds .

Liberate me,
this garment is weighing me down.

In pictures: Asavari Mishra
Written by: Diwa Shah
Photographs by: Aayushi Sawarn

Don't let them define you ,let this cloak be your disguise and one day you go riding a motorbike and the other you are r...
06/09/2016

Don't let them define you ,let this cloak be your disguise and one day you go riding a motorbike and the other you are rescuing them from goons dark at night.

Words by Diwa shah.
Photo by Aayushi Sawarn

उस बंद दरवाज़े की दरारों से,वह रोज़ अपने ख़्वाबों को फिसलते देखा करती है।इन्हीं दरारों के ज़रिये,रौशनी अंदर आती हैऔर उसक...
28/08/2016

उस बंद दरवाज़े की दरारों से,
वह रोज़ अपने ख़्वाबों को फिसलते देखा करती है।

इन्हीं दरारों के ज़रिये,
रौशनी अंदर आती है
और उसके सुन्सान कमरे में,
सुस्त लेट जाती है।

रात की मद्धम हवा की वजह से,
अध्खुले उस दरवाज़े से,
वह अक्सर अंधेरे को बुलंद होते देखा करती है।

भोर होते ही जब सूरज दरवाज़े पर दस्तक देता है,
अंदर घुट रहा अंधेरा उन दरारों के रास्ते फ़रार होने को तड़पता है।
उन्हीं दरारों से वह सूरज की किरनों कोे आंगन में फैलते देखती है।
ठीक वैसे ही जैसे कोई सुनहरी धान की गठरियाँ।

जिन तख़्तों को कील-हथौड़े से जोड़कर,
कभी वह दरवाज़ा खड़ा किया गया था,
उसके एक अकेले मुक्के से
वे तख़्त धड़ाम से मुँह के बल गिर जाते हैं।

वह हैरान रह जाती है।
सोचने लगती है,
कौन ज़्यादा कमज़ोर था?
वह बंद दरवाज़ा या उसकी ख़्वाइश?

In photographs-- Kritika Sharad
Photographs taken by-- Aayushi Sawarn
Poem originally written in Sadri by-- Jacinta Kerketta, a tribal woman from Jharkhand whose powerful poems deal with issues of displacement, violence against tribal women, hunger and apathy of governance.
The poem is available online in English by the title-Closed door
Translated in Hindi by-- Kritika Sharad

| An Old Photograph |
02/06/2016

| An Old Photograph |

21/05/2016
समय के एक तमाचे की देर है प्यारे मेरी फकीरी क्या, तेरी बादशाही क्या kolkata'15
17/05/2016

समय के एक तमाचे की देर है प्यारे

मेरी फकीरी क्या, तेरी बादशाही क्या

kolkata'15

Once upon a time there was a boy and a girl.The boy always dreamt of a princess charming who would come riding in her ho...
10/05/2016

Once upon a time there was a boy and a girl.The boy always dreamt of a princess charming who would come riding in her horse and rescue him from all his troubles...... To be continued.....

Happy Mother's Day.
08/05/2016

Happy Mother's Day.

They put off the fire with tanks incalculable Where the spark that ignited was all within me!!"लाल - The fire within you...
24/04/2016

They put off the fire with tanks incalculable
Where the spark that ignited was all within me!!

"लाल - The fire within you"

For the inexhaustable spirit that battles thirst,
The boundless soul that scraps all the dirt.
To the feeble voice becoming thunderous,
combating what was wrong
Innumerable days of starvation yet optimistic about tomorrow for long.
Sweltering in the footpath awaiting winters as they sleep,
The incorruptible sound that wouldn't shed tears if it ever weeps!

"लाल- The fire within you"। पहली झलक ।
23/04/2016

"लाल- The fire within you"

। पहली झलक ।

All those who experienced the shake in the video was mostly caused by the youtube stabilisation option, the glitches hav...
22/04/2016

All those who experienced the shake in the video was mostly caused by the youtube stabilisation option, the glitches have been fixed.

Thank you doston for all the love and reviews. Your appreciations and criticisms were much helpful and needed. Love to all.

This video poetry talks about how sometimes there are instants in life where a single bit opens a box full of memories of a path trodden and forgotten. The p...

She belongs to another world, another time. Wears her hair the old style, ripped jeans, skinny thighs. She looks down up...
18/04/2016

She belongs to another world, another time. Wears her hair the old style, ripped jeans, skinny thighs. She looks down upon her throne with no fear of defeat, they bow down at her. Alas! Their Mughal queen.

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