​​ migratory birds taking home a piece of sky ~ teji sethi (published in the Haiku Foundation, Oct 2020) I had read somewhere that Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore, during his visit to Japan in 1916, was captivated by the beauty of a poetic form that was both succinct and profound. He went on to translate some of these Japanese poems into Bengali and experimented with the art form. Haiku is believed to have travelled to India around that time, though its roots trace back to ancient...

you and me together yet apart beads of a rosary ~ teji sethi, India Under the Basho, Aug 2020, Uncharted Roads (2021) The Year book of Indian Poetry in English 2020 -21 Kala Ramesh homes in on the sabi: I remember my grandmother constantly rolling the beads of her rosary, counting 108 times before she put it aside, only to pick it up again! In Hinduism it’s called the japa mala. Because I am familiar with these beads, I was drawn to write an analysis of this poignant senryu. For me, the...

haiku is a minimalistic art, a way of thinking to assimilate self with the divine nature and its blissful beauty. It is an art that amalgamates the spiritual romanticism and intellectual cadence of human beings in the perennial journey along the corridor of nature - Pravat Kumar Padhy, senior haiku poet the doha, is a lyrical verse-format which was extensively used by Indian poets and bards of North India probably since the beginning of the 6th century AD. They are quotations of worldly...