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Vote Chori and Other Myths: Poems for the Republic
Paperback
Fiction AnthologiesGeneral Poetry
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jan 28 2026
Pages: 46
Weight: 0.14
Height: 0.10 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
In the gap between what is said and what we know in our bones, poetry finds its purpose.
When democracy drowns in fifteen minutes of rain, when voting booths become theaters of loss, when the republic breathes beneath the weight of our silence-what do we do? We write. We witness. We refuse to look away.
Vote Chori and Other Myths is a collection of resistance poetry for our time-raw, unflinching, and achingly human. These poems confront electoral theft, democratic decay, and the slow unraveling of a nation's promise. But they also reach back, conversing with the voices of Muktibodh, Jibanananda Das, and Banu Mushtaq-poets who understood that art must name what politics obscures.
From the pond thief who steals beauty in a gray world to a mother's seventy-ninth sigh on Independence Day, these verses map the landscape of modern India: its compromises, its complicity, and its remaining embers of hope.
For readers who loved: The Hill We Climb by Amanda Gorman, Milk and Honey by Rupi Kaur, The Essential Neruda, and contemporary voices in political poetry.
Perfect for: Readers of political poetry, South Asian literature, resistance writing, and anyone seeking language for these troubled times.
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