Bengaluru Poetry Festival Hangover/4/ With poet Jayant Parmar. I also got a signed copy of a translation of his Urdu poems, ‘Pencil and Other Poems,’ and what powerful poetry! Sample this:
In ancient times
they used to write
on ordinary leaves,
on Bhojpatra,
on palm leaves,
on tree trunks,
on stones,
on animal skins,
on bronze.
But the dark hymns of tyranny
are inscribed on my body,
even today.