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HARNIDH KAUR Born in a tiny Maharashtrian district called Bhandara, self-proclaimed ‘shaukeen’ (epicure) Harnidh Kaur has spent most of her life shuttling between Delhi and Mumbai, and continues to do so. She pursued her undergraduate degree in history at Lady Shri Ram College, Delhi, and did her Master’s in public policy at
i don’t know how to write this poem. it turns into a distress alert every time i put a word after the other. i write of spring days and how the city i’m in is meeting cherry blossoms soon and it ends up reading like the obituary of a winter with no name. instagram.com/harnidhk AUGUST 2018
St. Xavier’s, Mumbai. She currently works as a policy analyst with non profits, focusing on urban sanitation, providing basic resources to marginalised communities. The 23-year-old attributes her inclination towards poetry to her parents: while her mum was a professor of literature, her father always encouraged her to spend her money on experiences, such as reading,