Parul Khakhar describes herself as a ‘homemaker first – and a poet, second’ One morning in early May, a poetess living in a nondescript town in India’s western state of Gujarat finished her chores and picked up the newspapers. India was in the throes of a deadly second wave of the coronavirus. Disturbing pictures of India’s holiest river, the Ganges, swollen with bodies of people feared to have died of Covid-19 filled the front pages. There were reports of overflowing cremation grounds, and of… Source link
Read More »The Indian stay-at-home mum trolled for poem on Covid dead
