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Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh

Nov 25, 2021

Feral goats and ghar-wapasi

A poet, troubled by growing ethnic violence and the drives to deter, detain, and deport migrants across the world, and rising hatred against minorities in his own country, ponders the meaning of ‘ghar-wapasi’

Poem and Text

Anshu Malviya

English Translation

Saumya Malviya

Illustrations

Labani Jangi

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English Translation

Saumya Malviya

Saumya Malviya is an Ahmedabad-based sociologist and poet with a published collection to his credit. His work focuses on the anthropology of mathematics.

Illustrations

Labani Jangi

Labani Jangi is a 2020 PARI Fellow, and a self-taught painter based in West Bengal's Nadia district. She is working towards a PhD on labour migrations at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Kolkata.

Poem and Text

Anshu Malviya

Anshu Malviya is a Hindi poet with three published collections of poems. He is based in Allahabad and is also a social and cultural activist, who works with the urban poor and informal sector workers, and on composite heritage.