Through 100 pages of 'Poetry as Evidence', Outlook presents a selection of poems and verses that have moved us, and we feel these serve as evidence of our bleak times and lives.
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00:00 I am Pragya and I bring to you excerpts from the ear-opener issue of Outlook titled Poetry as Evidence.
00:07 Poetry must be brought before general public. Poetry offers that scope that we get affected and we feel.
00:14 Poetry expands the scope of storytelling. It is evidence of others' lives, of our times.
00:21 We remain grateful to Amar Kanwar who worked with us and edited this issue,
00:25 and to everyone who gave us their poems and images, to the reporters who gathered the poems,
00:31 to the designers and researchers who made it all possible.
00:35 Cast Certificates by Daniel Sukumar from Karnataka.
00:40 It is true, I found cast only when I saw it on a certificate.
00:45 Before that, I never understood why my father uprooted his existence from the birthplace of his oppression.
00:53 Why he never talks about culture or pride of his ancestry.
00:58 After all, my grandfather's house is after a lake by the side of a highway,
01:04 in a series of huts far away from the village. Nobody noticed when he left.
01:10 So why expect a welcome now?
01:13 Before I saw cast on a certificate, I never understood why some friends didn't eat from my tiffin box
01:20 that mom packed carefully to not show who I am.
01:24 And yes, I call them friends.
01:27 I never understood why I was refused to be taught music when I was 14.
01:32 They looked at my hands to say they were too small to hold anything.
01:36 My voice too coarse for classical singing.
01:40 For this and more, read the year-opener issue of Outlook.