Nilim Kumar

Every so often someone’s writing grabs you, and you feel in company you recognise, akin to.Take Nikim Kumar. 1 Nilim Kumar is a writer from Assam, India. – ‘author of seventeen volumes of poetry and three novels in Assamese. Translated into several languages (including English, French, Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati, Punjabi and Nepali), his poetry has won various accolades, including the Uday Bharati National Award, the Raza Foundation Award and the Shabda Award. He has participated in a number of national and international literary festivals.‘ https://www.poetryinternational.com/en/poets-poems/poets/poet/102-23807_Kumar I warmed to to the mischievous humour of this poem: Ruby Gupta Ruby Gupta’s underwear had not dried outon the day the Jallianwala Bagh massacre took place.While gathering clothes she’d hung out to dryup on the concrete roofshe noticedall her clothes had dried outexcept her underwear. Frightened she wassince the evil event occurred on the planetthe same dayher underweartook…