Poetry, and nonfictions

Colours

First published in Literary Yard, May 7, 2023When I was small at an age unknown, someone told me that in South Africa, angels were black, not white. In South Africa, they had apartheid as the racial segregation system based on colour where

How I First Learned About Democracy?—My Memory of a Hindi Language Class

First published in Indian Periodical, March 19, 2023 Chiranjibi Paudyal asserted that the word ‘caste’ came with colonisation. Most Japanese people don’t know this. Furthermore, when I say that India is a democratic country, they often com

My love for the photographs of 1980’s India by B.Ashok

First published in RIC Journal, January 16, 2023 1. It was in his room at the university hostel where I saw for the first time his photos: portraits of North Indian rural people. Both of us were post graduate students at Jawaharlal Nehru U

Memoirs of Manipur

First published in Indian Periodical, November 13, 2022 I acquired his drawings at the group exhibition in New Delhi in 1988. I met the artist at the gallery, and conversed with him asking where he originally came from, because he looked

English and Imperialism: Japan’s experience

First published in Indian Periodical, October 9, 2022Douglas Lummis says “I never heard the expression English conversation (eikaiwa) until I came to Japan” in his book published in 1971. He summarized briefly that “English conversation off

Floating Identity Torn Between Victim and Criminal

First published in Indian Periodical, October 16, 2022 During the Second World War, English was labelled “tekikoku-go”(language of enemies) in Japan and boycotted under the popular mass media’s self-censorship. Worse, Japanese government im

“Why India, and not America?” – my choice in 1970’s Japan

First published in Literary Yard, October 7, 2022The US hegemony began during the Second World War and peaked some thirty years later. 1. Life is strange. Sometimes, just a short encounter leads us somewhere we never expected. The Japanes

Water, my dear South Indian friend (my letter to Akella Ramani)

First published in Literary Yard, October 7, 20221. It was in 1987. I was a student of Jawaharlal Nehru University, under the scholarship of the Indian government. Being a student of anthropology, I was required to learn a local language,

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