
lonesome dreams glowing through the moistened cinders of a monsoon pyre (Haiku#1)
A new over-bridge was being built. Concrete and glass structures, most of them identical apartments and shopping malls, concealed from view the old, now mite bitten, carpentry shops lined along the road. The makeshift laundry shop, as luck would have it, a permanent one in the vicinity, was no more there. During the days when…
(First written in 2013 during postgraduation in JNU, New Delhi) Emergence of the urban spaces[1] has been spontaneous in some cases and in some cases was triggered off by already existing cultural and political forces in the vicinity. Both the cases find ample representation and evidence in the books- The European City and The Soviet…