# Sister and other poems

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**Author:** Saratchand Thiyam
 **Translators:** Robin S Ngangom and Bijoykumar Tayenjam**
Pages:** 68 **Year of Publication:** 2014 **Price:** Rs 150 **ISBN:** 978-93-5045-
077-2 (9789350450772)

_**About the Author**_
 Saratchand Thiyam was born in 1961 in Imphal, Manipur. A
poet and a travel writer, he has written five volumes of poetry in Manipuri and 
three travelogues. He received the Jamini Sundar Guha Gold Medal from the Manipuri
Sahitya Parishad in 2002 and the Sahitya Akademi Award in 2006. His poems have been
translated into many Indian and foreign languages. Outside of poetry, Saratchand
Thiyam was a part of the Indian delegation at the World Peace Conference in Athens,
Greece, which was organized by the World Peace Council in 2000.

_**About the Translators**_

**Robin S Ngangom** is a bilingual poet and translator in English and Manipuri. 
His three books of poetry are _**Words and the Silence**_ (published by **Writers
Workshop**, India), _Time’s Crossroads_ and _The Desire of Roots_. His poems and
translations have appeared in several journals and anthologies such as _The Literary
Review, Kavya Bharati, Dancing Earth: An Anthology of Poetry from North-East India_(
Penguin) and _The Harper Collins Book of English Poetry_ (HarperCollins). His awards
include the Udaya Bharati National Award for Poetry and the Katha Award for translation.

**Tayenjam Bijoykumar Singh** is an engineer by profession and a bilingual writer
by inclination. He writes short stories, poems and non-fiction in English and Manipuri.
He also translates from Manipuri into English and vice versa. He has brought out
two collections of short stories in Manipuri and a translation of Ratan Thiyam’s
plays. He received the Katha Award for translation in 2005 and his story, ‘Mama,
I’m Up Here’ won the Sulekha.com-Penguin online writing contest. He is currently
vice-president of the North East Writers’ Forum (NEWF).

_**Teaser**_

_A Bunch of Keys_

Today, a complaint is to be lodged.
 If you don’t pay any attention to it then I’ll
take it you’re very biased.

Keeping a bunch of keys in your hand
 you don’t use it even-handedly. Some have 
worn from overuse some have rusted from sheer neglect. We all are in working condition,
not a single one is out of order, we all are your creations that is why you’re called
the Owner.

Since you have created us
 treat us equally, think deeply to realize the true worth
of each. But this is not what is happening today.

[tr. Bijoykumar Tayenjam]

_**Contents**_
 41 poems