Welcome to Season 2, Episode 7 of the Zabaan-e-aam. It's almost summers in Delhi and the temperatures are rising. While the mercury's rising, you can chill and relax as we take you along a nostalgia lane to childhood of the 1990s kids (and the earlier generation too). In this podcast I have shared Akhil Katyal's poems on power cuts, visiting the lover's neighborhood, Forgiveness and History. Akhil is a famous contemporary Indian poet. His poetry talks about our reality without the twists and turns of complexity. I have picked these 4 simple poems that take us back in time and also reflect on what is happening around us. Akhil Katyal Akhil Katyal is a poet, translator, a teacher and a queer activist – and one of the most influential voices in alternative poetry, especially among younger readers. His first poetry book, Night Charge Extra, was shortlisted for the Muse India Satish Verma Young Writer Award, and his second book of poems How Many Countries Does the Indus Cross won the Editor’s Choice Award from The Great Indian Poetry Collective. (Scroll.in - https://scroll.in/article/1032894/the-poetic-and-the-political-has-to-go-together-akhil-katyal-on-reading-and-writing-poetry) Poems in this podcast: Dekho and Itihaas - from the poet's Instagram Forgiveness - https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.scroll.in/article/1032894/the-poetic-and-the-political-has-to-go-together-akhil-katyal-on-reading-and-writing-poetry On One of Those Long Walks - Indian Literature, Vol. 66, no. 5-6 (Sep-Dec 2022) ⁠If you would like to support our podcast, please click on the links below: Buy Me a Coffee: ⁠https://www.buymeacoffee.com/zabaaneaam ⁠Instamojo: ⁠https://knottymusings.in/product/4682733/buy-me-a-coffee-47842 Follow us on Instagram: ⁠https://www.instagram.com/zabaan_e_aam⁠ Don't forget to subscribe to our podcast for exciting stories and poems.