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Sudeep Sen

Side by side

Independent Homeland

Bophuthatswana appears pock-marked,
engulfed by the South African terrain.
Transkei, Ciskei and Lesotho too, are arced
to suffer the same fate:
Tongue-tied, colour-coded, land-locked.

Sudeep Sen

(India, 1964)

Sudeep Sen is the author of more than fifteen books and chapbooks of poetry. He studied literature in New Delhi and the USA, and later completed an MS as an Inlaks scholar from the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia. Since his first major book The Lunar Visitations in 1990 (after a quiet debut in 1983), Sen has established himself as a dynamic presence on the literary scene, working in m...

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Independent Homeland

Bophuthatswana appears pock-marked,
engulfed by the South African terrain.
Transkei, Ciskei and Lesotho too, are arced
to suffer the same fate:
Tongue-tied, colour-coded, land-locked.

From: South African Woodcut