Sujata Bhatt is an Indian poet who was born in 1956. She received the Commonwealth Poetry Prize for her first collection Brunizem in 1987. Her work has been included in several anthologies and translated into English. Her other works include Monkey Shadows’ and The One Who Goes Away.
‘Go to Ahmedabad’ shows the psychological struggle of an immigrant dealing with disturbing past events and contemporary issues with newly developed views.
Go walk the streets of Baroda,
go to Ahmedabad
and step around the cow dung
but donāt forget to look at the sky.
ā29 April 1989ā by Sujata Bhatt is a sweet, little piece about a motherās sudden found pleasure in natureās soggy musicality.
In ā3 November 1984,ā Indian-English poet Sujata Bhatt shows how history plays a vital role in the process of writing poetry, and their interconnectedness.
āA Different Historyā by Sujata Bhatt is not a raging piece of protest, rather it teaches how to revisit oneās cultural past in a curious, sensible way.
āFor Nanabhai Bhattā is about the poet Sujata Bhattās grandfather, Nanabhai Bhatt, who was an educationist and activist active during the Indian independence movement.
āIrisā by Sujata Bhatt is a narrative poem with lyric qualities. It depicts an artistās wait for the sun to come out and bring out the colors in a single iris.
āMuliebrityā by Sujata Bhatt describes a young girl in India who spends her days picking up cow-dung, and the inherent āglisteningā power she has.Ā
‘Partition’ by Sujata Bhatt depicts the simple tale of a woman going to a ārailway stationā to provide for distressed people, while her niece stays āin her gardenā and āwish[es]ā āsheā could be brave enough to do the same.
‘Search for My Tongue’ by Sujata Bhatt describes the speaker’s struggle embracing a new culture and ātongue.” While fearing they’ll forsake the core details of who they are in the process.
āThe Need to Recall the Journeyā by Sujata Bhatt is a poem about the past and a speakerās desire to return to the moment her child was born. It was too fleeting, she feels, and she canāt help but wish she was there again.
āThe One Who Goes Awayā by Sujata Bhatt shares her emotional journey of leaving India and traveling to America. She entails the internal struggle to define what āhomeā is during that period.
‘The Peacock’ is a poem by Sujata Bhatt, a diasporic writer who lives in Germany. Her poems depict the unsettling
āThe Stareā by Sujata Bhatt describes an interaction between a human child and a monkey child at a zoo. It conveys the peaceful curiosity the two show towards one another.
āThe Stinking Roseā by Sujata Bhatt describes the way that garlic is judged based on its name and how a changed name might influence that fact.Ā
āWhat Happened to the Elephant?ā by SujataĀ Bhatt is inspired by Hindu beliefs. Specifically, she focuses on ideas of reincarnation and a childās curiosity in it.Ā