Book Review: Ranu Uniyal's Poetry on Communalism Speaks of Resentment and Elegiac Moments
Based on a real incident in Bihar, ‘Saeeda kay Ghar’ is about communal violence and its aftermath – but it is neither sentimental, nor declamatory.

In the writing of committed poetry, the initiating creative impulse invariably remains the moment when the poet feels impelled by an event – even an accident – to express her sincere concerns about what lies concealed under the manifest reality. An authentic poet always articulates that which the society wishes to suppress, calling out the veil and the mask for what they are, and naming the demons and the monsters, within us and without, that hold our rationality and humanity in thrall.
