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Varsha Dutta live in Mumbai and was born in Guwahati, Assam. She studied in Delhi and in England from where she was trained in cognitive neuropsychology. She has made a montage of the human landscape that she stealthily wanders and often likes to traipse through the unabsorbed, unaccustomed hinterland. Her articles have appeared in scientific journals and The Hindu and this is one of her reflective attempts in shorthand.
The winter hearth
wills and opens out to silence
As she stares into the fire
and digs at the hardened calluses in her hand
She sits there roasting brinjals
peeling the brute off the seedy flesh
slippery, hot, palpable
Clutching … [Read the rest...] “The neuron’s journey through an unsettled historian | Varsha Dutta”
From
the hot springs
the gypsy headed Lorca
boot strapped
to a blood wedding
instructs the
fervent air
to ensnare
dust from
the Portulaca regime
Seep through
the subterranean wounds
of deception
Stir, Stir, Stir
the mighty
morning imagination
into … [Read the rest...] “The Portulaca regime | Varsha Dutta”