shall I compare you to an AI bot? / you are far less attentive or aware. / you fail to handle context, and are not / developed well for customer care.
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“Bro, five minutes.” // His five minutes / has no relationship / with the five minutes / known to clocks.
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Nizarudeen reworks Langston Hughes’ ‘The Negro Speaks of Rivers’, replacing Hughes’ historical subject with the Moplah, a term deeply entangled with the colonial history of Malabar Muslims.
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The poems shift from the familiar and recognisable to the unfamiliar and uncongenial in just a few words, and just as easily back again. It is Gangopadhyay’s metier.
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K Ramesh offers a kaleidoscopic view of the beauty nestling in the ordinary and commonplace, of movement in stillness and of the macrocosm in the microcosm.
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