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    Dust

    Nini Lungalang is an important voice in Naga poetry. She taught English and classical music in Northfield School, Kohima, Nagaland. In the poem Dust, she voices the experiences of numerous Naga brothers and sisters who have lost their lives. 

    Hunger: "We want rice, we don't want cash!"

    This haiku encapsulates my impression of the debate titled 'Cash or kind transfer? The regional, national and global dimensions of revamping the Public Distribution System' facilitated by Augustin Brutus, a scholar activist (Intercultural Network for Development and Peace) and post-doctoral scholar at IFP, Nithya Joseph, at the Pondicherry workshop.  The participants included Sudha Sundaraman, of the AIDWA (All Democratic Women's Association) and members of the local women's group SAMAM (Samam Makalir Suyasarbu Iyakkam).

    Renga between Past and Present Selves

    Clad in polka dots,

    Eyes glitter despite wet toes,

    Exchanging this love.

     

    After days of rain, the sunlight

    shimmers – dappled shadows dance.

     

    Living tradition,

    Colors bleed transformation,

    An elsewhere awaits.

     

    What do our bodies know that

    text cannot articulate?

     

    Shuttling asleep,

    Lines collapse past and future.

    Who holds the power?

     

    Resisting capture, its wings

    flutter, fighting off the pin.