This verse is in light of recent events in India regarding violence towards doctors. You placed me on a pedestal, but God I was not.. *** Yes… Read more “Demonized, demoralized”

“It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live” Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone Time and again I had heard Some sort of… Read more “Detached from desire”

This is a poem about postpartum depression- an underrecognized and undertreated illness. Time and again she was told, it would be natural From within her would spring… Read more “Love at the end of the tunnel..”

Ganga is the life-blood of India, venerated as a goddess, but shares the dubious distinction of being the sixth most polluted river in the world). I originated… Read more “I, Ganga”

If  a passive observer were to observe in detail His life- I can tell you they would certainly fail To identify any source of unhappiness gross He… Read more “Existential angst”

What would you like to own, that is truly yours? * I hope you own everything you wish for under the sky But ownership of material objects… Read more “Own Your Voice”

When someone calls me an immigrant I am confused Not knowing in what context the word has been used- Maybe it is just an observation about me… Read more “Immigration, integration”