WE ARE YOU PROJECT
Bio: Bina Sarkar Ellias
Bina Sarkar Ellias is founder, editor, designer and publisher of International Gallerie, an award-winning global arts and ideas publication encouraging critical awareness and understanding of cultural diversity as interpreted through the arts. She is also a curator, poet and fiction writer and has been published in anthologies and online sites. Besides a chapbook, The Room (publ. AarkArts, UK), her book of poems FUSE (publ. Poetrywall/PoetryPrimero, India), a rumination on various chapters of her life, was launched recently. She received a Fellowship from the Asia Leadership Fellow Program and Japan Foundation, 2007, towards research and development of the project, Unity in Diversity: Envisioning Community Building in Asia and Beyond, the Times Group Yami Women Achievers’ award, 2008, and the FICCI/FLO 2013 award for excellence in her work.
We Are You
let a hundred flowers bloom
let a thousand voices sing
let a million dreams awaken
to another Arab Spring
let the people’s movement flow from land to ‘nother land
let the boundaries dissolve
let diversity take a stand
let the itinerants find home wherever they migrate
let the arrogance of nations
not determine their fate.
let a hundred flowers bloom
let a thousand voices sing
let a million dreams awaken
to a We Are You Spring
Three Haikus
they fly north
birds blind by light
where is the nest?
restless winds
blow fallow dreams
into fertile soil
flowing north
on a bed of doubt
a river of hope
