Mehul Devkala
Mehul Devkala is a Gujarati poet, editor and an award-winning filmmaker. His first poetry collection, Sarjan Ni Kshane, was published in 2019. His short film on Gandhiji won him an outstanding achievement award at CICFF and Golden Fox award nomination. He has edited an anthology on the literature from Northeast India in 2015. He has been invited as a Gujarati language representative at All India Young Writers’ meet organized by Sahitya Akademi in 2019 and 2021.
Poem by Mehul Devkala
In the skies, full of vermillion,
Like an ascetic meditating,
A dark shape emerges slowly.
The lore has it,
Millions of years ago,
There was a volcano that threw everything up.