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Watch the poetry of Jeet Thayil, Dom Moraes, Ghalib come alive on stage

This weekend, Poetrification returns after a four-month-long hiatus. The session will include a few new poems but familiar faces — Smith, poet and actor Danish Husain, and musician Adil Manuel

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A Poetrification performance at Sitara Studios
A Poetrification performance at Sitara Studios

'In India, in twenty fifteen. The earth picks at its scabs, old wounds made fresh, children crawl backward like crabs/to the cradle, no light, no progress, only a cleansing of the unclean/ as defined by the Prime Minister's fringe masters. His beard drips grammar, this morning, and though his fist, pumps properly for the camera, he has lost faith in his tryst, his destiny, his own words make him cringe'.

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