In the Days of Cages

Aparna Lanjewar Bose is a multilingual writer, poet, and translator and an activist. She teaches English literature in the postgraduate teaching department of the University of Mumbai. She has published two books: "Kuch Yu Bhi," a collection of her Hindi-Urdu poems, and "Red Slogans on the Green Grass," a compilation of translations from Marathi to English.

Foreword; Introduction; To Where I Belong; A Truth (This is for Real); Of Being; My Pa Once Said to Me; In This Wasteland; I Simply Do Not Know; If Only; Growing Up; Spinsterhood; Go On; On the Eve of 1st September; In the Days of the Cages; To Let Remain; Deconstruction; On the Sight of a Surreal Painting; Untitled I; Thanksgiving; If I Could Be That Which I Am Not; On Your Birthday; Relationship; Bedroom I; Bedroom II; Bedroom III; Propria Persona; Deal; To You With Love; Global Conference (A Prelude to Durban); Dalit Power; Make-up; Drudgery; Untitled II; One Day; One Life (Point/Counterpoint); Untitled III; The Jasmine Tree I; The Jasmine Tree II; The Jasmine Tree III; Still Life (Picture); A Present; Lines for Tomorrow; Word Loss; Advice I; Advice II; Advice III; Every Night; Words; Early Morning in London; Good Morning (For a Friend in SBMM); Standing by the Thames; A Chant; Wish I was Not Born At All; Reciprocation; In This Democracy My Eyes Search; In Such Endless Infuriating Nights; I Fear; Contemporary Dust; A Sentence; Illusion & Reality; Thought Process; Lines Composed in My Room in Uppasala, Sweden; On the Sight of a Chameleon; Habituate; In This Deep Dark Maze; Grace (For a Tamasha Artist); I Float on the Surface of These Immeasurable Silences; Dhammagiri I; Dhammagiri II; Dhammagiri III; Choice; The Sacred Beast of Longing; In Response to What a Known Poet Said to an Unknown; One Evening; When I Announced Today; Lines Written Upon Kovalam Beach.