Normalcy
by Ananya S. Guha / August 30th, 2026
Things are serene outside
Is everything normal
How do we explain normalcy?
Is it the dictum of the govt machinery?
The hills look the same
How can things not be normal?
As puddles of water form in roads
The rains are normal
The streets are normal
The cars move normally
Yet why do people say that things
Are not normal?
Just because cars were attacked
The other day?
The newspaper says that the town
Is ‘limping back to normalcy’?
How many times has this town
Felt such abnormal fits?
Is violence not a part of normal history?
I step out to witness what the hills
Feel about this ‘normalcy’
Ananya S Guha lives in Shillong in North East India, where he was born and brought up. He has been writing and publishing his poetry for the last forty years. His poetry has been published in both electronic and print formats such as: Indian Literature, Other Voices, Osprey Journal, Glasgow Review, The Literary Nest, Up The Staircase, Asia Writes, Art Arena, Praxis Online, Muse India, Your One Phone Call, In Between Hangovers, The Peeking Cat Magazine, Post Colonial Text among others. He has also written widely on educational and social matters. He has ten collections of poetry and his poetry has been anthologized in various collections of Indian poetry in English. He holds a doctoral on the novels of William Golding.
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This article was posted on Sunday, August 30th, 2026 at 8:00am and is filed under Poetry.
