Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh •
Nov 25, 2021
Feral goats and ghar-wapasi
A poet, troubled by growing ethnic violence and the drives to deter, detain, and deport migrants across the world, and rising hatred against minorities in his own country, ponders the meaning of ‘ghar-wapasi’
English Translation
Saumya Malviya
Saumya Malviya is an Ahmedabad-based sociologist and poet with a published collection to his credit. His work focuses on the anthropology of mathematics.
Illustrations
Labani Jangi
Labani Jangi is a self-taught painter from West Bengal's Nadia district. She is the very first winner of the T.M. Krishna-PARI prize in 2025 and was a PARI Fellow in 2020. A PhD scholar, Labani has been working on labour migrations at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Kolkata.
Poem and Text
Anshu Malviya
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