Acknowledgements are due to the editors of the following publications in which some of these poems, at times in different versions, first appeared: The Literary Review: Indian Poetry (Fairleigh Dickinson University), The Yellow Nib: Contemporary English Poetry by Indians (Queen’s University Belfast), World Literature Today: Writing from Modern India (University of Oklahoma), The HarperCollins Book of English Poetry by Indians, The Brown Critique, The Missing Slate, English (KEYwording Series, Living Archive Project, Arsenal – Institute for Film and Video Art, Berlin), IQ–Indian Quarterly and Muse India.