Lopamudra Banerjee

Lopamudra Banerjee is an acclaimed Indian author, poet, translator, editor from Dallas, Texas with six books and four anthologies in fiction and poetry. She has been a featured poet at Rice University, Houston, USA and co-produced and acted in the poetry film 'Kolkata Cocktail'.

Neurotic

‘It’s way past midnight’. “Who remains awake at this ‘happy hour’, signing a pact with the mind’s secret chambers?” “Neither a ghost, nor a she-demon, nor a witch, but a dark, sombre truth of a female body in her prime, screaming

Caged

I have seen you sitting in the wrinkled sack of a home Your moist, savory stories slapped shut in the folds of your earth, Pregnant, drunk, and raining. I have seen the blue-red shriek, the aboriginal music Piercing through your