Mitali Chakravarty

Mitali Chakravarty has two books of poems, Flight of Angsana Oriole (2023, Hawakal Publishers, India) and Cities, Nomads and Rocks (2024, Gibbon Moon, UK).

Diamanté

I jump from ship to ship, / fly dangling from the claws  of a huge bird in the sky / till my toes scrape mountain-tips. 

3m ago

Of dewdrops and grit

‘Shabnam’ is a dewdrop in Persian. Shabnam (1960) is the name of Syed Mujtaba Ali’s passionate love story that stretches beyond the history of nearly a century ago.

6m ago

The flute player

“I sing the song of equality– Of a country where fresh joy blossoms in every heart

11m ago

Let me be free

Let me be free. Let me be free 

1y ago

London cabs, jams and kinship

London, once the centre of the empire where the sun never set, dates back to prehistory with evidence of structures from Mesolithic times.

1y ago

When fiction challenges communalism

A journey that shreds castes and creeds to heal the self-esteem of a woman.

2y ago

Words of Love

Thoughts of a devoted poet

2y ago
January 2, 2021
January 2, 2021

When?

The scents and colours of the morning arouse the wetness of the night. The dewdrop splendour awakens the dawning sunrise drenched in colours

October 17, 2020
October 17, 2020

Something missing

Something missing from this dish and that.

August 22, 2020
August 22, 2020

Moving On

Flowers on Facebook — Violet, red, yellow, orange — splashed a welcome into a garden never visited

April 11, 2020
April 11, 2020

Love, Love Again…

Perhaps, the time has come to Love, Love again

March 28, 2020
March 28, 2020

Oborodh Awake!

The keepers of law

January 4, 2020
January 4, 2020

Different Worlds

The cloud saw the girl sitting in her balcony and reading. Peace and harmony -- thought the cloud and smiled.

November 23, 2019
November 23, 2019

Confused

I am mixed-up — cannot help

October 12, 2019
October 12, 2019

A Requiem for Amazonia

Amazon burns Each flame licks a life

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