Requiem for a Home in Manipur

About this book

This is a haunting and deeply personal poetic reflection on the loss of home during the prolonged unrest in Manipur. Drawing on vivid memories of everyday life, like fruit trees heavy with childhood summers, the hum of a kitchen once filled with warmth, the rustle of books in a family library, and the distant strum of a musical instrument, the poems reconstruct a world lost to violence and displacement. Through evocative symbols like the gate, barn, garage, and garden, this collection of poems chronicles not just physical destruction but the erasure of belonging, memory, and identity. The book speaks not only to those from the Northeast but to all who understand that home is more than a building; it is where our lives take root. In a time when over 60,000 people have been displaced in Manipur, this poetry collection becomes both witness and elegy.