These mannequin fountains and servant lawns
Preserve impressions
Of iron hoofs and Mughal Juttis
And that big dome you see, like a pyramid
Covers impressions of the same bones
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Sonnet Mondal
Sonnet MONDAL (poet; India) is a young Indian poet and the founder of The Enchanting Verses Literary Review. He has authored eight books of poetry.
Sonnet was featured as one of the Famous Five of Bengali Youths in India Today magazine in 2010 and was long listed in The Forbes Magazine’s top 100 Celebrities 2014 edition among India’s most celebrated authors. Later in March 2015, The CultureTrip website, London, listed him among the Top Five Literary Entrepreneurs of Indian English Poetry.
His works have been included in editions of The Sheepshead Review (University of Wisconsin, Green Bay), The Penguin Review (Youngstown State University), Two Thirds North (Stockholm University), Nth Position, Fox Chase Review, The Stremez (Supported by The Ministry of Culture, Macedonia) and The Thing Itself Journal (Our Lady of the Lake University, Texas) among others.
He is the youngest Indian to have represented India at the historical Bridges Poetry Event, Struga Poetry Evenings, Macedonia, and most recently he has represented India at the Uskudar International Poetry Festival, Istanbul, Turkey organized by the Government of Turkey.
His poetry has been translated into Hindi, Italian, Chinese, Turkish, Macedonian, Bengali and Arabic.
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