Results 2017
The First Prize of One Lakh Rupees has been awarded to Vancouver Shullai, a resident of Shillong for his poem ‘The Wait’
The Second Prize of Fifty Thousand Rupees has been awarded to Debarshi Mitra, a resident of New Delhi for his poem ‘Still’
The Third Prize of Twenty Five Thousand Rupees has been awarded to Trijita Mukherjee, a resident of Nadia, West Bengal for her poem ‘Kalyani’
Top 30 Prize Winners: INR 10,000
Rohan Naidu- The curd won't form, now that you're gone- Hyderabad, Telangana
Zainab Ummer Farook- Homecoming- Chennai, Tamil Nadu
Ekshikaa S- 21 Barbies And 1 Ken- Chennai, Tamil Nadu
Ananya Ray- Syria- Kolkata, West Bengal
Shruti Shukla- Yes, I shop- Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh
Jaisal Kapoor- Quarter Life Crisis- Mumbai, Maharashtra
Meghna Chatterjee- A Ride Away From Home- Kolkata, West Bengal
Jash Dholani- All cracks are smiling now- Sonepat, Haryana
Sushruti Tripathi- Nothing is how I feel- New Delhi
Anuradha Rao- Mornings- Bangalore, Karnataka
Sneha Roy- Alfaaz- Sonitpur, Assam
Kaavya Ranjith- Phonecall- Pune, Maharastra, India
Aashika Suresh- Unlearn- Chennai, Tamil Nadu
Aditya Lakshmi Ravichandran- Child of War- Anupuram, Tamil Nadu
Supriya Shekhar Azad- Dearest Society- Jammu & Kashmir
Hiya Mukherjee- Becoming Unbecoming- Kolkata, West Bengal
Bikash Kena- Kintsukuroi- Itanagar, Arunachal Pradesh
Aratrika Ghose- An Ode to the Odd Ones- Kolkata, West Bengal
Merab Wangchuk- MONACHOPSIS- Kolkata, West Bengal
Dibyangee Saha- (Un)wisden- Kolkata, West Bengal
Wikim Ajang- Darling Mother- Tirap, Arunachal Pradesh
Saniya Heeba- Abruptly Aware- Roorkee, Uttarakhand
Urvashi Bahuguna- Seeking a well-spoken gallery assistant- Gurgaon, Haryana
Mahika Khanduri- Trauma- New Delhi
Aditya Sharma- Monsoon Musings- Guwahati, Assam
Syed Ali Mudassar- Mother- New Delhi
Eesha Roy- Red is my favourite colour- Pune, Maharashtra
Suveni Madan- Infidelity- New Delhi
Antara Chakraborty- Years in Tea- Kolkata, West Bengal
Priyam Gupta- Thank You Note- Mumbai, India
Commendable Mentions
Upasa Borah- Say Cheese- Guwahati, Assam
Kaushambhi Bagchi- Home- Gurgaon, Haryana
Satyendra Nair- Caustic Wine- Mumbai, Maharashtra
Maulik Dabholkar- Instinct- Mumbai, Maharashtra
Letitia Jiju- Roots- Kottayam, Kerala
Akshay Sharma- Boy- New Delhi
Avantika Chaturvedi- Greens to Greys- New Delhi
Ritika Kapoor- Valkyrie- Pune, Maharashtra
Ambuj Sen Patra- I Know, Nobody Knows- New Delhi
Kavya Jayanthan- Imbroglio- Bangalore, Karnataka
Sreelakshi Sudhakaran- ‘Native is not the same as ‘Innate’- Bangalore, Karnataka
Srushti Shah- Don’t just exist, Live- Ahmedabad, Gujarat
Rajani Bal Nanda- Love Me Now- Rishikesh, Uttarakhand
Sohini Mukherjee- Nistha- Kolkata, West Bengal
Nida Rashid- Impending- Noida, Uttar Pradesh
Titas Biswas- Soothe Your Fears (A Letter to My Best Friend)- Kolkata, West Bengal
Shivani Tannu- Tell Me- Aundh, Maharashtra
Rabia Kapoor- We Are The Internet Generation- Mumbai, Maharashtra
Stuti Pachisia- Incense- New Delhi
Vaishnavi Kamath- confessions of a caffeine dependent life form- Bangalore, Karnataka
Niharika Mathur- Numb- Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh
Fathima Zaina Fazal Mohamed- Honey, Wake Up!- Chennai, TN
Akshita Gupta- Marji's Song- Noida, Uttar Pradesh
Akanksha Varma- Received- Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh
Urvashi Mukherjee- Aatish-e-Tanhai- Kolkata, West Bengal
Aarushi Gupta- Taxi Trips- Mumbai, Maharashtra
Tanisha Nag- Homeless- New Delhi
Chitrika Bhargava- Solace in Imperfections- New Delhi
Harismita Vaideswaran- Ignorance- Noida, Uttar Pradesh
Trisha Coelho- With You- Kolkata, West Bengal
Shrutee Choudhary- Remnant of You- Ranchi, Jharkhand
Prerona Dutta- The Infinite Hourglass- Kolkata, West Bengal
Nandini Varma- Death is Not A Lonely Visitor- Mumbai, Maharashtra
Moushmi Mehta- Of Better Seconds- Mumbai, Maharashtra
Shlagha Chaubey- Looking Up- Mumbai, Maharashtra
Zeneeva Parvez- Dear Everyone- Kolkata, West Bengal
Lusha Jetley- #NotAllMen- New Delhi
Shivani Bindhyeshwari- One Sip- Noida, Uttar Pradesh
Rajeshwari Dasgupta- Five (More) Ways to Kill A Man- Kolkata, West Bengal
Alisha Bhupen- Semantic of Being Dead- Guwahati, Assam
Debarshi Mitra- English- New Delhi
Harshitha Swarna- Vitiligo- Mysore, Karnataka
Poulomi Roy- Assimilate- Pune, Maharashtra
Akanksha Duvedi- Anxious- Panchkula, Haryana
Rukhsar Khan- Rebel- Mumbai, Maharashtra
Subhashini Verma- Shapeless- Jalandhar, Punjab
Meghna Bhattacharyya- To Mum & Dad, From Your Perfect Daughter- Guwahati, Assam
Ankita Shah- Borders- Mumbai, Maharashtra
Mehr Pasricha- What is it About Babies?- New Delhi
Devanjali Banerjee- I Want The World To Change- Kolkata, West Bengal
Sanjana Srikumar- Musical Silences- New Delhi
Shreya Rach- A Rebellious Act- Mumbai, Maharashtra
Farah Maneckshaw- An Emotional Faucet With A Permanent Leak- Mumbai, Maharashtra
Aishwarya Sahi- Notebook Poems- Patna, Bihar
Ranu Kunwar- Suicides and Fire Burns- New Delhi
Syed Adil Husain- Momentary- Bharanpur, Madhya Pradesh
Devapreeta Jena- A Friendly Foe- World We Inhabit- New Delhi
Guntaj Arora- For My Sister- Chandigarh, Punjab
Ashwita Angeline Ashok- As We Walk- Trivandrum, Kerala
Saheli Ray- Why do they sing you 'Goodbye', Grandma?- Kolkata, West Bengal
Sihi Nagathihalli- On My Grandmother- Bangalore, Karnataka
Satyaki Mitra- Deserters- Kolkata, West Bengal
Rithvika Puttabakula- #SocialNetwork- Hyderabad, Telangana
Samriddhi Pandey- Coming up for Air- Mumbai, Maharashtra
Sneha Rozelena Anthony- Swings and Ice-Cream- Kolkata, West Bengal
Rohan Naidu- Chopstick Fumble at Hawker Centre- Hyderabad, Telangana
Divya Karthikeyan- Abrus Precatariuos- Chennai, Tamil Nadu
Aakanksha Majumder- Your Warmth- Mumbai, Maharashtra
Tania Mitra- Abandonment- Kolkata, West Bengal
Farzana Palathingal- There Were No Lessons In School For Days Like These- Manipal, Karnataka
Kajol Runwal- Kitchen Women- Pune, Maharashtra
Apurva Shelke- To Be- Nashik, Maharashtra
Gayatri Hariharan- The Great Weight- Bangalore, Karnataka
Haalah Shaikh- The Nomad- Mumbai, Maharashtra
Sonal Sharma- Shame- New Delhi
Jelsyna Chacko- One word less, one idea unexpressed- Pune, Maharashtra
Divya Sruthi Alamuri- Maps- Hyderabad, Telangana
Sobulemla Pongener- Lavender- Kohima, Nagaland
Dhruv Trehan- Onomatopoeia- Gurgaon, Haryana
Niharrika Singh- Protest Art- Mumbai, Maharashtra
Anees Ailynti Noronha- May- Shillong, Meghalaya
Riya Dey- Depression- Kolkata, West Bengal
Sameera Pant- The Love Song of a Sixteen Year Old Spinster- Gurgaon, Haryana
Archita Mitra- Menstruation- Kolkata, West Bengal
Harish Pedaprolu- The Bajji-Wala- Mumbai, Maharashtra
Thanisha Santhosh- Roses and Bristles- Bangalore, Karnataka
Fengkha Daimari- The Faith- Bhoi, Meghalaya
Poonam Ratha- Borderlines- Rourkela, Odisha
Shrenik Mutha- Your Death is a Lachrymal to Your Mother's Tears- Pune, Maharashtra
Yashodhara Trivedi- Between Continents- Kolkata, West Bengal
Shivani Gupta- Dear Girl From Pakistan- Chennai, Tamil Nadu
Nilesh Mondal- Delhi: 6 Poems And A Farewell- Asansol, West Bengal
Vidit Taneja- The Dark- New Delhi
Donita Ningombam- The Dragonfly- Imphal, Manipur
Sushmitha Arji- 20- Vishakapatnam, Andhra Pradesh
Kampheriu Diengdoh- A Lost Voyager- Shillong, Meghalaya
Keval Jadwani- I Killed A Dream- Jamnagar, Gujarat
Shradha Mehta- Men- Gaya, Bihar
Drishika Muthanna- Language of Silence- Bangalore, Karnataka