Stop War, Stop War
Lying on the floor, the grandfather complains,
children are dying in this hospital for scarcity of medicines.
He asks the grand daughter, " Where's the doctor, where's the nurse?"
Perhaps all have fled away the trauma,
but who could answer this terminally ill old man!
He is not told that outside
bodies of a newborn and a twenty days old
are left on the street, waiting burial.
When death stares at the eyes
who remembers to shed a drop of tear?
She has heard what others say-
death because of proper clothing and shelter,
for one was her own cousin. Alas!
A week ago their house was shattered in a blast.
Here Rahat, a 13 year old, in a rush to a bakery for bread
the bodies are being thrown out of the overcrowded morgue,
hundred dreams wrapped in plastic sheets,
is her father among them?
She couldn't stop to get the answer for
somehow she is to get food for her pregnant mother,
starving for five days.
See, how Rahat is still holding the loaf of bread,
as her arm is dismembered from
her body.
Here shelling had just started.
There the plastic bodies rise and sit in a respectful and upright position.
They are praying, "stop war, stop war"
in a dilapidated mosque nearby.
BIOGRAFÍA
Dr. Tamali Neogi is Associate Professor of English, Gushkara College (Affiliated to the University of Burdwan), Gushkara (West Bengal), India. She has authored V.S.Naipaul: His Dark and Comic Vision (Authorspress, New Delhi 2023). As a creative writer she has published Woman of Patashpur(2020), and edited Postmodern Voices, Volume VIII: An Anthology of Poem(2022). She is the Associate Editor of the Anthology of Ethical Poetry(2023), and editor of An Anthologyof Contemporary South-Asian Women Poetry(2024), ventures of Academy of Ethics, India. In an academic career spanning two decades, Dr. Neogi has published short stories in significant journals and edited volumes, presented research papers at national and international seminars, conferences, presided over paper reading sessions, and has also published research articles, book reviews in reputed journals and magazines in India and abroad (number of research articles-40) to name a few Literary Voice(Web of Science journal), Literature and Aesthetics: the journal of the Sydney Society of Literature and Aesthetics(SSLA) (Scopus journal), Boletin de Literatura Oral (Scopus journal) etc. She has translated Dr. J. S. Anand's most phenomenal book Lustus and Liviu Pendefunda's award winning book Unseen Light in Times into Bengali. Her poems are published in internationally reputed magazines, anthologies and newspapers. Her recent (2024) publication is a collection of short stories, Moments, published under Stockholm Project, 2033. Her poems and book reviews have been translated into Chinese, Spanish and Romanian languages. Her first anthology of poems, Winged Monologues has won her THE BEST DEBUT BOOK AWARD 2024. The same book wins her Canadian- Romanian ATMA PRIZE 2025. Her second book of verse Winged Dialogues is published by Romanian Writers’ Association, Montreal, Canada, March, 2025. The Daily Global Nation, Bangladesh has bestowed upon her the honorary position of International Peace Ambassador. She is selected as one of the fifty Memorable Women in Contemporary History by the prestigious literary organization, Mil Mentos Por Mexico International in 2024. She is awarded IV PREMIO ANNUAL DE PAZ 2024, DR JUAN CARLOS MARTINEZ CHUEKAS INTERNATIONAL PEACE PRIZE. She has won Platinum Eagle Award in 2024. She figures in the editorial board of globally reputed Contact International magazine. She has been Featured in multiple national level and foreign English newspapers like News Kashmir, The Sentinel Assam etc. and International Magazines like Wordsmith International, Humanity Magazine Global, Swan etc. She is the winner of 31ST PREMIO NAZIONALE DI POESIA INEDITA OSSI DI SEPPIA, BEST FOREIGN AUTHOR AWARD. She is included in Gran Enciclopedia de la Cultura Universal Integrantes del Tomo 2. She has won prestigious Nazi Naaman Literary Award 2025.
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