Stories - Five Minutes With

"Every form of life shapes the future. Poets are just as important, and no more."

My gender and the context of violence is also crucial. I do not think I would have written poetry in the manner that I do if I were a man living in another context.”

"I write poems because I can not help it given the brutal nature of experience under caste society which people like me and my community has to go through."

"Yet there are moments when the beauty of some living being or an object or event/story will move me, overwhelm me."

"Poetry exists to validate the inner life. It is a vital art form that is a tangible documentation of the potentialities of language to capture the dynamic movement of consciousness."

"I inhale and exhale words and stories, with this weird wonder that I might be utterly dysfunctional to the society at large."

"I wish to record my experiences with trauma and mental illness due to over-exposure to death and violence."

"I write because I feel that living on words and the experiences they generate is an extra nourishment one can have other than just eating, sleeping, and living on."

"Read the very best from the past but be aware of what is contemporaneous. That is where your practice lies. Don’t worry about posterity."