Poems, Pooja Nansi
Sara Carvalho
Pooja Nansi is a first-generation Singaporean. With two books published, her poems show the influence of “Old Bollywood songs, my family and Rap music”. Pooja Nansi’s poetry reveals the melancholia of exile, visible in her songs of parting ‘A line that says “After renunciation, you will be given a letter stating that your Indian passport has been cancelled and that you are no longer an Indian citizen”’. Her poems are also playful and make fun of pop culture, movie theatres, the idea of loving somebody and loosing oneself in somebody else’s dream. For this issue, Pooja Nansi allowed us to publish ‘Songs of Exile,’ ‘Amitabh Bachan’ and ‘Geeta Cinema’.
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