Poetry and photography, each tug at the heart in a manner so sublime, the impressions may last a lifetime. In The Broken Verse, poet Chirag and lens men Nicolas and Ashima bring together these two matchless forms of human expression as a poem’s verses come to life on a picture’s canvas.
The poet takes you through an emotional odyssey; from the anguish of a teenage mother to the tragedy of female infanticide, from the might of the Niagara to the serenity of the Ganges, the eerie wilderness of Nubhra Valley to the pedant symmetry of the Vatican. The lens men in turn take you through their kaleidoscopic journeys across the disarming Swiss Alps, the unforgivingly urbanized Dubai, the confused melange of the Dhobhi Ghat and nonchalance of Turkish bazaars among many others.
Leafing through The Broke Verse will make you smile, cry, ponder, wonder, feel, and in that way, touch your life too.