People

Satyendra Nair (BTL)

Bombay / Mumbai

 Satyendra NAIR lives in Navi Mumbai and participated in Between the Lines: Silk Routes in the summer of 2016. He currently attends SIES College of Arts, Science & Commerce. In 2015, he won first place in a Black History Writing Competition through the American Library in Mumbai. Satyendra defines himself as an urban poet, with his writing reliant on the local trains of Mumbai, drinking tea at the roadside tea stall, and sitting in the chaotic tranquil at Marine Drive. 

Author's Gallery: 
Caustic Wine

This is the city of dreams,

not for their fulfillment,

but for those that it consumed

and passed down as heirloom;

you can see these on the streets at half past seven,

bare fists...
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Quiescence

Metaphors could line the back alleys
of distraught kingdoms,
casting rebels,
buzzing like bees,
around intrusive hornets,
breaking out to bigger nests;
productive unrest,
...
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An Anchored Nation

I sit here, listening to an orchestra.

They are playing the Banjos of ingenuity,

and far from where I am, is a symposium

of wise men, sitting on the struggle
of the common American –...
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Untitled: Anthology

I am the creature that country clichés often mention—
the city animal.

This restless wonderment
at my inability to harness nature in my poetry
is a distant thought now,
overwritten by...
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Language Essay: Mumbai

To be born into the hubbub of an Indian city, is to be born into a world of multiple cultures and at least two other languages. We boast a staggering number of gods and goddesses and hundreds of...
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