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Through the Veil

“Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.” Rousseau’s words, written centuries ago, continue to resonate with disturbing clarity in our modern world.

Memory and spirituality in lyrical verse

In the preface to her second book of poems, Signing in the Air, Malashri Lal explains her choice of the title for her book by stating, “while ‘signing’ is a manner of asserting identity, I’ve chosen to scribble in the empty air where intimations of spirituality as well as social truth coexist without definable boundaries.”