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Shyamasri Maji
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Shyamasri Maji
teaches English at Durgapur Women’s College in West Bengal, India.
Irrefutably Human: Dearness as Both Cost and Affect in the Poetry of Shanta Acharya
March 19, 2026
Shyamasri Maji
I have nothing else to offer, dear Life—
words are what I breathe and eat, the clothes I wear,
dreams that sing me to sleep, silence that greets me awake:
words are the wea…
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