You were a storyteller
lurking on my pages
you told me your immigrant story
running through your veins
in my language
and into my blood
until I knew it by heart
in my inner verses and
it became mine
you became
and i was
(yours)
Official Website and Blog for Shaleen Rakesh, an indie author based in Dehradun, India. Shaleen is a writer and recursive observer of the shifting Himalayan landscape, whose work interrogates the friction between geologic time and the fragile architecture of human memory. Deeply rooted in the ecological and psychological terrain of the Doon Valley, his prose functions as a diagnostic for the Anthropocene—charting the rain of ash that defines modern loss.
The book which told each other or rather wrote each other
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