My journey in a long chain of carriages

I’m travelling in it too

The repeated thuds of wheels on the tracks –

Is there any connection with the bounding wildlife of the montane forests?

I am moving on a single path of the double tracks

From one town to another, far away

The train connects the otherwise unconnected

What can I say, how can I say

Only lovers of long-distance trains will understand

The journeys a train makes on these iron tracks.

A long journey

The Omon Mahila Sangathan – a women’s self-help group in Noamundi, Jharkhand – had invited some of us from the Thulir Magalir Kuzhu, a women’s self-help group I belong to in Kodaikanal, to join their Women’s Day celebrations on 8th March this year.

Three of us – Valarmathi, Kaleeshwari and I – took part, accompanied by my fa

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