Poem: 'Miniscule Minority'

Through 100 pages of 'Poetry as Evidence', Outlook presents a selection of poems and verses that have moved us, and we feel these serve as evidence of our bleak times and lives. The poem below is the 80th from the series.

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Updated on: 15 January 2024 8:05 am

Women farmers form a human chain to protest against farm laws in Noida in 2021

“Miniscule minority” “Miniscule minority”
– the judges kept on barking,
clearly they’ve never been
on a Sunday evening to the
park above the Palika parking.

Akhil Katyal, Delhi

(Akhil Katyal’s?fourth book of poems?A Biography of After?is forthcoming from HarperCollins India (2024). He is the author of?Like Blood on the Bitten Tongue: Delhi Poems?(Westland), the translator of Ravish Kumar’s?A City Happens in Love?(Speaking Tiger), and the co-editor of?The World that Belongs to Us: An Anthology of Queer Poetry from South Asia?(HarperCollins India). Katyal teaches Creative Writing at Ambedkar University, Delhi.)