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00:00 I am Pragya and I bring to you excerpts from the ear-opener issue of Outlook titled Poetry as Evidence.
00:07 Poetry must be brought before general public. Poetry offers that scope that we get affected and we feel.
00:14 Poetry expands the scope of storytelling. It is evidence of others' lives, of our times.
00:21 We remain grateful to Amar Kanwar who worked with us and edited this issue,
00:25 and to everyone who gave us their poems and images, to the reporters who gathered the poems,
00:31 to the designers and researchers who made it all possible.
00:35 When it rains in Dharamshala by Tenzin from Himachal Pradesh
00:40 When it rains in Dharamshala, raindrops wear boxing gloves.
00:45 Thousands of them come crashing down and beat my room.
00:49 Under its tin roof, my room cries from inside and wets my bed, my papers.
00:56 Sometimes the clever rain comes from behind my room,
01:00 the treacherous walls lift their heels and allow a small flood into my room.
01:06 I sit on my island nation bed and watch my country in flood.
01:10 Notes on freedom, memoirs of my prison days, letters from college friends,
01:15 crumbs of bread and Maggi noodles rise frightly to the surface like a sudden recovery of a forgotten memory.
01:23 Three months of torture, monsoon in the needle-leafed pines,
01:27 Himalaya rinsed clean glistens in the evening sun until the rain calms down.
01:33 For this and more, read the year-opener issue of Outlook.