Through 100 pages of 'Poetry as Evidence', Outlook presents a selection of poems and verses that have moved us, and we feel these serve as evidence of our bleak times and lives.
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00:00 I am Pragya and I bring to you excerpts from the ear-opener issue of Outlook titled Poetry as Evidence.
00:07 Poetry must be brought before general public. Poetry offers that scope that we get affected and we feel.
00:14 Poetry expands the scope of storytelling. It is evidence of others' lives, of our times.
00:21 We remain grateful to Amar Kanwar who worked with us and edited this issue,
00:25 and to everyone who gave us their poems and images, to the reporters who gathered the poems,
00:31 to the designers and researchers who made it all possible.
00:35 Every weekend by Muzibur Rahman from Tamil Nadu.
00:39 Every weekend it is someone new. Some of them tall, some short, some dark and some fair.
00:46 Sometimes it's pizza, sometimes a cup of tea, sometimes a bright and breezy evening by the beach,
00:54 sometimes a dimly lit fancy restaurant.
00:58 Every time there is less familiar face in front of me and a menu that eventually does become familiar.
01:06 I have done this for a while. Even the waiters and the tea vendors are starting to notice now.
01:12 Sometimes the pasta is bland, other times the coffee perfectly brewed.
01:17 Sometimes I find memories of the conversations worthy of being cherished forever.
01:24 Sometimes I regret having done it at all. Some make it to more than one meet, some remain one hit wonders.
01:33 Some make me dream of one day making a family with them.
01:37 Some make me feel insecure and insignificant.
01:41 It does get tiring sometimes. The same routine only sort by the people and the place and the food.
01:49 But I am still hungry for food, for conversations and for companionship.
01:54 And I will continue to keep having these weekends in hopes of finding the perfect combo that I am craving.
02:02 For this and more, read the year opener issue of Outlook.