Kiriti Sengupta


Memoir 
(for Mathures Paul)

Lasting dilemma erupts 
as a sapling 
splits open concrete. 

Does a dwelling 
fear oblivion?

A tree proliferates. 
It adds to antiquity.



Missus 

My falling-out
fails to furcate.

Her silence, the shield. 

Intrinsic

I've been watching movies for years and I don't remember when I first grabbed a popular film mag. I became an avid reader of Anandalok, Filmfare, Stardust, Cine Blitz. Did the actors discuss why they chose to be one? They explained what they could become otherwise. Someone could have turned into a lawyer, a doctor, an engineer, or a researcher of a specific science. We prefer to think they had no career choices. Clad in white, Simi Grewal questioned her guests: How did you get your first break? Cinema honors light.

Was Joy Goswami asked, What if you weren't a poet?



Kiriti Sengupta, the 2018 Rabindranath Tagore Literary Prize recipient, is a poet, editor, translator, and publisher. He has authored eleven books of poetry and prose, two books of translation, and edited eight anthologies. Sengupta's poems have been published in The Common, The Florida Review Online (Aquifer), Headway Quarterly, Moria Online, Amethyst Review, Madras Courier, Ink Sweat and Tears, The Lake, Mad Swirl, Outlook Magazine, among other places. He is the founder and chief editor of the Ethos Literary Journal. Sengupta lives in New Delhi.

More at www.kiritisengupta.com.

 
 

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