Love After Babel & other poems

by Chandramohan S., Suraj Yengde, Ananya Wilson-Battacharya

Love after Babel is a brilliant new poetry collection by Dalit poet Chandramohan S, a highly charged political treatise. Chandramohan's position as a Dalit writer illuminates his treatment of caste-based oppression, while also creating a sense of radical solidarity between various marginalized identities in contemporary Indian society through his focus on other forms of oppression, namely on experiences of Islamophobia, gender based violence and racism. It is an active political tool to counter multiple forms of oppression in India and across the world.

Genres: Poetry

112 pages, Paperback

Published July 18, 2020

About the author

S. Chandramohan (Chandramohan Sathyanathan) is an English poet based in India. His poems reflect the socio-political struggles of the marginalized, the working class and the nomadic outcasts of the world who are victimized and then forgotten as nation's clash and wage relentless wars. His work has been profiled in New Asia Writing, Mascara Literary Review and About Place Journal, Counter-Punch Poetry, Thump Print Magazine, The Sentinel, etc.

Reviews

[Sookie · Rating 4 out of 5]

In your poems
Do not set your rhyme and meter
To the drum beats of populism.


Every poem has an origin in distant history that has continued to even today. The political machinations that operate along with media and tech, has a selective operational bias. The poet here brings out the bias, bigotry, and plain violence that has been injected into specific section of society for centuries and continues to do so. In places there is sheer helplessness when the poet watches silence echoing when a tribal girl dies, he is quietly dissuaded during mass violence over petty politics and there is rage, of course there is, how can there not be?

This collection of poems can easily be a miss as well, as couple of poems were for me. However the overall collection is strong and impactful.

PS: It by sheer accident that I found this collection; I was checking if Tanuj Solanki had any new books and saw this on his currently-reading. And, here we are.