Yashasvi Gaur, Author at INVERSE JOURNAL

Yashasvi Gaur

Yashasvi is a research scholar in Jadavpur University in Kolkata. Although based in Kolkata currently, she yearns for a ‘home’ and a lost sense of belongingness. Literature and insanity keeps her sane while she remains deeply embossed in poetry, pain, and pleasure. Coming from Bikaner, a small town in Rajasthan explains her long lethargic battle to smash and stand tall against patriarchy. Travelling places and swapping apartments taught her about the bitter truths of life. She is among those people who linger for finding meaning in the little things. Writing is like breathing for her, which she explains ‘sometimes come out in fragments, while sometimes like an incessant puddle of emotions after a long hefty morning run’. She writes about simple arenas of life and how it unfolds into myriad philosophies. Her writing contains a dialectic relationship between what we are and what we want to be. Her last short story was published in an anthology by Half Baked Beans.

Unposted Narratives — Four Poems by Yashasvi Gaur

November 27, 2019 | Poetry

Yashasvi Gaur presents four of her poems under the title of “Unposted Narratives.” Each of the poems, although unique and specific, maintain a common thread in what the poet calls “an attempt to trace some fragments that could allude to aspects of Homelands.” The poet writes in a versified response at “times of distress” when “art transcends as a voice of dissent, dirge, and rebellion.” Here she offers solidarity through the poetic voice, while recognizing that “the continued imposition of the Indian government and its people on the Valley is ruthless and forceful.”