Chirashree Indrasingh
Lt. Chirashree Indrasingh has 11 short story collections and three anthologies of poems to her credit. One of her anthologies, Saree, weaves together 34 poems that capture the myriad modes and modalities of women, intricately expressed through the timeless elegance of the saree. Chirashree has also translated Bhalchandra Nemade’s Kosala, Namita Gokhale’s Things to Leave Behind and Jayanta Mahapatra’s Sky without Sky (Puri poems) into Odia. She is a reader in Political Science and lives in Bhubaneswar.
Poems by Chirashree Indrasingh
Peasants stay up the whole night, and from the stalks of paddy separate paddy and birds from each other. In the morning, someone’s storehouse fills up with bags of paddy. And the birds flutter around looking for beak-sized portions of darkness.