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Ayilisha Manthira

Ayilisha Manthira, 25, who writes under the pen name Chumki, won the National Arts Council Golden Point Award’s second prize for Tamil poetry in 2019. She is also an executive committee member of the National Library Board Young Writers’ Circle for Tamil youths. A multilingual from young, she finds delight in toggling between tongues - learning, unlearning, and repeat.

Briefly, in the news | செய்திகளின் சாரம்

Posted on October 31, 2020 by Ayilisha Manthira

2.32pm, a moment ripe in Singapore. Not America, not Laos, where time pulls dissonant. In India, more so, it keels over. The abyss clings onto Africa, as it did Asia. All I have seen— Sorry— I mean, all that was …

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