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Sharmistha Mohanty is a fiction writer and poet living in Mumbai. Her most recent work is Five Movements in Praise (Almost Island Books, 2013). Poems by Sharmistha Mohanty. “Make broadness broadness”.
Feb 4, 2015 · Sharmistha Mohanty ‘even more it was a wish for boundless spaces, a wish for the inexpressibly wide and broad, for the unharnessing of human life’ – New poetry by Sharmistha Mohanty.
By Sharmistha Mohanty. Make broadness broadness. from narrowness. Lead lead us. We see nothing. behind nothing ahead. These worlds are broad above. beyond our knowing.
Sharmistha Mohanty is the author of three works of fiction: Book One, New Life, and Five Movements in Praise. Her most recent work is a collection of poems, The Gods Came Afterwards , from which these poems are taken.
Jan 5, 2018 · A Poem and a Prose Text. Sharmistha Mohanty. Vasudha Thozhur, ‘Batik’, 2005. Not the history. of a life. never what is. personal. Always what is. outside time. never a moment that. begins. to end. Never a thing and. a horizon. never all lines meeting. far away. Though playing together without. beginning or end. Radha and Krishna.
Aug 22, 2022 · ‘Thirty two nights and dawns’: Three poems from Sharmistha Mohanty’s new book of poetry (in prose) An excerpt from ‘Extinctions’, by Sharmistha Mohanty.
By Sharmistha Mohanty. A snake eats a mynah. head first, yellow legs extend. from the snake’s filled mouth. The cattle bellow. tethered to ancient trees. Dung fills the tall grass. Thunder strikes at the humid air. There is no I.
