Ayaan Halder is a poet, author and Doctoral research scholar at the Department of Law, Gauhati University, Assam (India). His works have been published in various national and international platforms such as Sahitya Akademi’s Indian Literature, The Wire, The Little Journal of Northeast India, Kitaab Magazine, Littera Magazine, The Chakkar and Poems India. His work mostly revolves around the coexistences and contestations in the day to day lives of indigenous and diasporic populations in India's Northeast. You can find him on Instagram: @_inkslinger__.
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Poetry by Ayaan Halder: ‘And then the browning milk that has gushed into his shoes, and mine, / Carries us over / To someone else’s pyre. / The wind, by then, has ravaged his leaf.’