Poetry at Sangam

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HUZAIFA PANDIT

Huzaifa Pandit is the author of ‘Green is the Colour of Memory’ which won the first edition of Rhythm Divine Poets Chapbook Contest 2017. He has won several poetry contests, including Glass House Poetry Competition and Bound Poetry Contest. Born and raised in Kashmir, his poems alternate between despair, defiance, resistance and compliance as they seek to make sense of a world where his identity is outlawed. His inspirations in poetry can be guessed from the topic of his PhD: “Faiz Ahmed Faiz, Agha Shahid Ali and Mahmoud Darwish – Poetics of Resistance” pursued at University of Kashmir. His poems, translations, interviews, essays and papers have been published in various journals like Indian Literature, PaperCuts, Life and Legends, Jaggery Lit, JLA India, Punch and Noble/Gas Quarterly. 

Poems by Huzaifa Pandit

The night is a song

Hospital

Cain, pronounce the sentence

Any last words?

The prisoners always knew 

Stranger, the butterflies of our nightmares lie charred

DECEMBER 2020