V.I.P. (Very Important Plant) by Sumana Roy Sumita Chakraborty Ours is a restless age

Ours is a restless age

Here comes everybody: Snoobie and Carla

'There is a type of nostos - that classical trope of the return home after great trials exemplified by The Odyssey - which does not involve exile in the literal sense

on Routines

honing-in on the specific colonial and post-colonial histories of the area

V.I.P. (Very Important Plant) by Sumana Roy Sumita Chakraborty Ours is a restless ageEven as she was searching for people who had wanted to live like a tree, a quest recorded in her book How I Became a Tree, Sumana Roy was simultaneously writing poems to imagine the opposite: How might it feel for plants to live social lives as humans? In V. I. P, plant replaces people to become Very Important Plant. In this new cosmology, leaves and fruits and roots are seen as perhaps they have never been before whether flowers can be repaired or