My Voice

I remember the words of a doctor friend of mine regarding diseases. Once I asked her why we get sick, why so many diseases trouble us. She replied that it was something they were never taught. We know when a particular disease enters our body but we do not know why they choose to do so. Neither do we know why we should get sick, why we die? I remember, my doctor friend is very religious. Maybe she is searching the meaning of death in faith. I imagine as though she was talking about poetry, not of diseases.

 

I do not say that poetry is a disease, but there is no doubt poetry is like a disease for the poet, it comes without telling her/him the cause.  There are a number topics on which we can discuss, like why is poetry? When is poetry? And what can be poetry? A list of questions is ready which merits discussion.

 

I feel poetry cannot be selfish, even when we express own pain of suffering, it should communicate to whole society and talk about humanity

 

In this issue we are presenting poet Faleeha Hassan to talk about her journey of poetry and suffering from war. In the section Editor’s choice JOSÉ SARRIA;s poetry translations are presented. In the section our master, we remember the Ritusanhar of Kalidas, the great Indian poet.

 

Three strong poets are there in the section of Poetry in our time- Alexandra Nicod (Swiss-Spanish poet), Ganesh Puthur and Linda Nassar (Lebanese poet)

 

I hope, you will like this issue

 

Rati Saxena