Rahul Verma: My Petty Bits

During my college days, I visited a book exhibition at a poetry festival. I had a quick look at a Punjabi book which had a poem written in the format of a triangle created with words with the heading “asi.N Naanak to.N door kive.N hoye” (How did we become distant from Naanak?). At the time it didn’t register in my mind, however it almost haunts me. There was no verb in this poem. I haven’t seen any other poetry in any language that was written just with nouns and adjectives and still convey the message.

I am going to attempt something similar here, although not exactly. There is a message I want to pass, without saying it out loud. So, this article will just contain a few images in a sequence.