nanobharatha
(from nanopoems)
When the Pandavas
asked the Kauravas
for a small piece of land,
they said they won’t give
even a needle’s tip of space,
not even a nanospace.
S S Prasad, born in 1980, works as a
microchip design engineer in Bangalore. His poems have appeared in Fulcrum,
Semicerchio, Orbis, The Journal of Indian Writing in English and New
Quest. In 2006, he won a Toto Award for Creative Writing.