Amitava Nag writes poems and short fictions in English and Bengali, his topics mostly veering on the sub-alterns and an individual’s denial of the system. His first collection of short stories 'Radha' (ISBN-10:3845445246) was published in 2011. Amitava also edits cinema magazine Silhouette and writes extensively on cinema.

RESERVOIR
            by Amitava Nag

A drop of water
traversing
between the head
and the toe
finds me,
was I leaving?

Then
another drop meets me
following, another
piercing like arrows,
the dry within
softens up.

Now,
water everywhere
trickling
like a teen love
the insides of
a deserted reservoir.

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