Writers often find their subjects not in grand events but in quiet observations - the scenes that linger long after they've passed. For poets especially, a theme may begin as a single image or question: What does it mean to endure? What remains when everything else is taken away? In exploring such ideas, poetry becomes both mirror and microscope - reflecting social realities while uncovering the emotions beneath them.
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In this spirit, India Today spoke to poet Sonnet Mondal, whose recent work delves into the intertwined themes of hunger, survival, and human dignity, to understand what draws poets toward subjects of deprivat
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