Asit Maitra

Q. What do you think your poetry says about you? I think my poetry says, broadly speaking, two things about me: a) on the wider canvas, I am an angry introvert who desires the world to be just and fair but not a crusader. b) On an individual human level my poems echo the cries …

Asit Maitra

 When did you start writing poetry? I started writing poetry when I was about 18. What was the first poem that you wrote, that you thought was good? My first poem that I thought was good (and published in the Sunday Supplement of a local Bengali newspaper) was titled ‘Bhanga chair’, (broken chair), a raw …