Salil Chaturvedi

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Salil Chaturvedi Biography

Salil Chaturvedi writes poetry and short fiction. His stories have appeared in Anti Serious, Himal, Indian Quarterly, Indian Literature (Sahitya Akademi) , Out of Print, Raiot, The Bombay Review and various anthologies. His poetry has appeared in Indian Cultural Forum, Guftugu, The Sunflower Collective, Wasafiri, The Joao Roque Literary Journal, and The Hyderabad Review, among others. He has published books for children through Pratham Books' Storyweaver platform. His haiku and haibun have appeared in various journals specialising in the Japanese short form, and on NHK television's 'Haiku Masters' programme. His debut poetry collection, In The Sanctuary Of A Poem, was released in 2017. IN 2018, he received the Editor's Choice award from the Joao Roque Literary Journal for his poem titled, Kiran. In 2019 he was awarded the Hindi Sewa Samman by The Hindi Academy, Delhi, for his Hindi poetry collection Ya Ra La Va Sha Sa Ha. His second poetry collection in English, released in 2021, is titled Love and Longing in the Anthropocene. In 2022 he released a short story collection titled, The Inexact Room. He was the winner of the Wordweaver Poetry Contest in 2015, and the Asia region winner of the Commonwealth Short Story Competition,2008. His books are available on Amazon.)

The Best Poem Of Salil Chaturvedi

The Cat

The cat is asleep
his head upside down
his stomach

wrapped around
and warmed by
the blinking modem

It's raining outside
Me?
I'm open to the world

like a wound
and happy knowing
my hands

were shaped by trees
I look out
to the universe

through the window
It's easy to see
there's a whole in it.

Meanwhile
the cat shifts
to my lap.

It cares nothing
for my abstractions.
It knows

the truest
part of me
is my heat.

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