About Tillotama Bosu
Tillotama Bosu says she is a “khanti Bangali”, or a true blue Bengali. She is a global citizen, a fauji (soldier) wife, a mother of one, a part-time political analyst, a full-time dreamer, who writes poetry (sometimes!)
She is a first-time participant in the Festival.
Please see her website, Phoenix Rising, for more of her work.
Feature Presentation
The Art of the War Deal
Or EOW (Economics of War)
The stops,
And the starts,
And this war is an art,
Of pushing and pulling
And tearing apart.
The liquid,
And solid,
Of every human wealth,
To be accumulated,
By all means, by murder, by stealth.
The price to be paid
For the price to be set,
The barrels held hostage,
By greedy eyes and hands,
Avarice always, before real rage.
The ego that survives,
And the flesh that doesn’t,
And a thousand soldiers cried,
Their rueful sobs echoing,
In a school where innocence died.
The mind goes,
Where the heart fears to tread,
The message is repeated
To be understood and read.
In the business of battle,
For the human cattle,
The cost is too great,
Sans the salt and the bread.
(c) 2026 Tillotama Bosu All Rights Reserved
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