Arundathi Subramanian's HOME The presentation is prepared by MS. Sruthy Mohan.

1. HOME
- ARUNDATHI SUBRAMANIAM

2. A GENERAL INTRODUCTION TO
THE POET…

3. ARUNDATHI SUBRAMANIAM

4. About the poet…
• Born in 1973 in Mumbai
• An Indian poet, writer, critic, curator, translator and
journalist
• As an art critic she wrote on literature and dance
• Recipient of various awards including the inaugural
Khushwant Singh Prize, the Raza Award for Poetry, the Zee
Women’s Award for Literature, the International Piero
Bigongiari Prize in Italy, the Mystic Kalinga award, the
Charles Wallace Award, Visiting Arts and Homi Bhabha
Fellowships

5. • She has written extensively on culture and
spirituality
• Works leaps between taking a dynamically
philosophical view on immediate daily
experiences to skillfully etching cultural or
geographical references as compass points to
a sweeping emotional landscape

6. • Even more than precision, the subtlety and the
angle vision from which she sees life has made her
works versatile
• Her poems cover the various physical,
metaphysical and spiritual stages of human
existence and experience.
• Her creations are an outpour of the various simple
and complicated experiences of her life

7. HOME
Give me a home
that isn’t mine,
where I can slip in and out of rooms
without a trace,
never worrying
about the plumbing,
the colour of the curtains,
the cacophony of books by the bedside.
A home that I can wear lightly,
where the rooms aren’t clogged
with yesterday’s conversations,
where the self doesn’t bloat
to fill in the crevices.
A home, like this body,
so alien when I try to belong,
so hospitable
when I decide I’m just visiting.