Results 2018
The First Prize of One Lakh Rupees has been awarded to Digvijay Singh, a resident of Delhi for his poem ‘Kaagaz’
The Second Prize of Fifty Thousand Rupees has been awarded to Jane Mary Joseph, a resident of Aizawl, Mizoram for his poem ‘The Burial’
The Third Prize of Twenty Five Thousand Rupees has been awarded to Yashi Gupta, a resident of Jaipur for her poem ‘Organ’
Top 30 Prizes
Piyush Sundriyal- वीर अभिमन्यु पुरुषार्थ
Cindy Felneihthiem- Have We Been Home For Too Long?- Churuchandpur, Manipur
Vaidyanathapuram R Shankar- Kannan and Unni- Vishakapatnam
Karishma D'Mello- Dusty Old Book- Bardez, Goa
Upasa Borah- Ruination- Guwahati, Assam
Ipsita Banerjee- pepper and salt- Kolkata, West Bengal
Shriya Bhardwaj- Letter to my Lovely Furboy- Gurugram, Haryana
Ritika Chandy- Goodbye to the Student Life- Bengaluru, Karnataka
Simran Rawat- चाय की चुस्की- Noida, Uttar Pradesh
Silpa Anand S- Focus- Puthenpalli, Kerala
Pragya Dubey- मुत्तफक़ीर- Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh
Amogh Kant Mishra- यही कुछ सिक्के नोट बन गए- Agra, Uttar Pradesh
Mandar Mutalikdesai- Dental Affections- Bengaluru, Karnataka
Stuti Jha- शिकाएतें तुम्हारी- Kolkata, West Bengal
Eshan Manglani- To a friend who lost his way- Pune, Maharashtra
Hindesh Akash- मिट्टी से उठा हूं, आकाश तक जाऊंगा- Patna, Bihar
Ramya Iyer- I am a little autumnal twig, awaiting my burial- Srinagar, J & K
Karunya Srinivasan- Inhabiting my Skin- Chennai, Tamil Nadu
Abhinav Bhardwaj- Spring in New Delhi- New Delhi, Delhi
Manyata Agarwal- Smoke my pain away- Chandigarh, Punjab
Siddhi Jayashree Uday- Born Free- Nagpur, Maharashtra
Kajol Hinduja- Keywords- Rajkot, Gujurat
Abhay Yadav- धरती, धर्म और भूख : एक संकलन- Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh
Jatin Patil- If you ever forget me- Kolkata, West Bengal
Moge Basar- Margins- Itanagar, Arunachal Pradesh
Saumya Lakshman- A-N-G-E-R- Mumbai, Maharashtra
Aahna Joshi- A Raining House- Rishikesh, Uttarakhand
Monica Coutinho- Oversized- Ahmedabad, Gujurat
Sana Khan- Wasted - Purulia, West Bengal
Lokesh Raj- Fighting for love- Hyderabad, Telangana
Commendable Mentions
Manoj Krishnan- मैं शिव बन जाऊँगा -New Delhi
Eliza Anjum - Circus- Lucknow
ANKIT KUMAR SRIVASTAVA - निःशब्द - UTRAULA BALRAMPUR
PREM KUMAR KULDEEP “प्रकृति – हमारी माँ है” Rawatbhata Via-Kota (Rajasthan)
Maleeka Zainab- WANT- Patna
Imran Surti- हूर- Surat
Hemant Yadav-At times- Bharuch
Anand Prakash Sharma- 'My Buried Daughter'- 15th of February 1975- Uttarakhand
JAYATI MAITY- To Muddupalani- Parganas
PRAHLAD MATHUR- गरीब का कफन- RAJASTHAN
Wikim Ajang- To the Young Me- Arunachal Pradesh
Satya Dash- An Evening of Friendship with My Mother- Bangalore
Marcus Lalrinmawia- Marvel-Mizoram
Divya Singh-Men and Women- Delhi
Vasvi Kejriwal- Mashi- , Maharashtra
Lipokmenla Ao- Season Switch- Nagaland
Pari Goel- Black Lead- Bhopal
Anil Zachariah Mathew- Honour-Nagpur
Pankil Mori-Kashmir- Gujarat
Ashwini Subramanya- Reaches-Mysore
Ayushi Tripathi-Midnight Musings- Sonebhadra
Sanghmitra Raj- Spring- Lucknow
Vinaya Grace Mary- Undress-Bangalore
ABHA GROVER-भ्रम- GURGAON
Rhea Johnson-RUINS-Thane
Amit Shankar Saha-The Plateau of Illicitness-Kolkata
Sonali Gupta- आजाद भी मैं , क़ैद भी मैं- Bareilly
Manisha Madhulita Sahoo- Red Rose in My Balcony Garden-Visakhapatnam
Shalmali Abhyankar-The Song of Silence-PUNE
Soumyadeep Das -Devi- Balurghat
Priyank Srivastava-बनारस-Mumbai
Dr. Pradnya Lokhande -बाई की बात...- Mumbai
Sumeet Keswani-Mirror Mirror-Delhi
Taarunya Narayanan- Intrigue – Coimbatore
Chanchal Sharma-आज फिर मन उदास सा है- Kota (Rajasthan)
Sanya Shandilya- Art of Poetry- Uttar Pradesh
Mehuli Chowdhury- Near- Kolkata
Lavanya Singh- धर्म की लड़ाई- Jharkhand
Vikrant Hatwalne-Tea and Cigarettes- Mumbai
Aiswarya Roy- Little Green Dot- Kerala
Tahaa Johar Ali- Spoilt (of) War!- Thane
Shiny Horo-Galaxies in your eyes-Arunachal Pradesh
SHIVA SHARMA AKALWADI-इंतज़ार, पर क्यों?- Bangalore
Smriti Adlakha-Prostitute-Jaipur
KRISHNASISH JANA- The Pallbearer- Kharagpur
Ritika Kumari- Loophole in Thoughts-Jharkhand
Anirudh Kamath- Reminiscence-Karnataka
Sanjana Singh-मैं एक धुआँ सी-New Delhi
Nidhi Kiyawat- Me and the Moon-Ratlam (M.P)
Charu Arora- कुछ आँखे बोलती है...- Uttarakhand
Sejuti Gupta- 404 Not Found- Bengaluru, Karnataka
Ravi Prakash- चेहरा- Allahabad, UP
Hrudya Anna James- My home in the moonlight- Idukki, Kerala
Arshi Ansari- इश्क़- New Delhi, Delhi
Benidamika Latam- A Letter Because We Ran Out Of Time- Chutwakhu, Meghalaya
Dimple Karamchandani- GAD- Gorakhpur, UP
Indrani Chakraborty- Earth- Kolkata, West Bengal
Senjuti Sangia- Apollo- Mumbai, Maharashtra
Aakanksha Dwivedi- शिव- Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh
Gaurav Tewari- The Ragpicker- Nainital, Uttarakhand
Adesh Srivastava- समझ कर- Pratapgarh, UP
Shruti Shukla- Growing up- Kanpur, UP
Manngailun Zou- Daughters are children too- New Delhi
Jyoti Yadav- मैं घर जाना चाहती हूं- Rewari, Haryana
Lokendra Singh- In the Flux of Eternity- Ajmer, Rajasthan
Snowber Aaliya- Firefly- Ramban, J & K
Sreelakshmi Sudhakaran- circles- Bangalore, Karnataka
Sujata Singh- वजूद- Kanpur, UP
Sakshi Sharda- The same way- Kathmandu
Ayushi Shukla- जाने क्यों ?- Jabalpur, MP
Aashwin Joshi- Servant- Almora, Uttarakhand
Abinaya V- Who are you?- Chennai
Eesha Roy- 10am, Burqa and Uncle- Pune, Maharashtra
Iti Ipsita- Choices- Bhadrak,Odisha
Sahana Mukherjee- Anniversary- Kolkata, WB
Sangeeta Kumari- एक विकृत आकृति सी- Ranchi, Jharkhand
Ishan Dubey- Envy- Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh
Shantam Raj- No Ambulance for Fish- Chennai, TN
Aishwarya Javalgekar- When I wake up- Gorakhpur, UP
Ishika Garg- अब न हो निराश तू- Haridwar, Uttarakhand
Alolika Dutta- Dear Dadu- Mumbai
Aditi Dadhich- सपने- Jodhpur, Rajasthan
Sonia Sabnis- You and I- Bardez, Goa
Amanda Basaiawmoit- A Letter to my son- Shillong, Meghalaya
Malvika Vazalwar- You are that Master- Nagpur, Maharashtra
Angel Baby- Because salary is the bribe they give you to forget your dreams- Mumbai, Maharashtra
Mathew John- A Man of Reason- Kottayam,Kerala
Vivek Chakraborty- क्या यही प्यार है?- Jharsugudha, Odissa
Yashi Tripathi- Madness- Noida, UP
Sidhant Setu- लाल दुपट्टे में बहता सूरज- Patna, Bihar
Jung Tzudir- Love clowns- Dimapur,Nagaland
Sukanya Shaji- Valour- Hyderabad, Telangana
Pooja Sharma- मिलेगी मंज़िल - एक बेहतर कल- Hamirpur, HP
Tanmay Guha Neogi- तुम और मै- Jabalpur
Shaanika Rakesh- Denied Justice- Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala
Shreshtha Awasthi- The girl who dances on the rope- Lucknow, UP
Madhusudan Mahawar- कविता - इश्क़ की ये सर्द हवाएँ- Pushkar, Rajasthan
Lavanya Rana- A missing statistic- Bhopal, MP
Vrinda Sehgal- Hot ciders- New Delhi
Jagriti Wadhwa- लाल- Damoh, MP
Yadawanka Pala- I could have been saved- Shillong, Meghalaya
Vishakha Tungar- Welcome to Society- Aurangabad
Lekson Hiri- The Beast in Beauty- Itanagar, Arunachal Pradesh
Ishita Bagchi- Wishes of a Tainted Soul- Kolkata, WB
Ipsita Acharya-The Second Self-Kharagpur
Priya Joshi- नवामि शंकर-New Delhi
Geethanjali C-Vignettes from Kashmir- Kerala
Shreya Sikka-Stereotypes-Haryana
Ankita Brahma- Home- Assam
Nirali Mehta- सपना मेरा टूटा- Gujarat
Vivek Rai- "मैं तुम्हे फिर मिलूंगी "-MadhyaPradesh
Deyir Nalo- Time- Uttar Pradesh
Krati Gahlot-अनंत- Indore
Esha Srivastava-Crescent Visitor- New Delhi
Abhivyakti Singh- I am my muse- Chhattisgarh
Swati Sahoo-Love in autumn- Odisha
Himanshu Pant-मां- Pithoragarh
Shreya Deshpande- इन्कार- Pune
Vaibhavi Tiwari- मरियादा- Gurgaon
Shreya Lal- Nutshell- Jharkhand
Ahel Choudhury-देहाँत इंसानियत का- Guwahati
Tanvi Nishchal- Lakh Jatan- New Delhi
Bani Allagh- Fine Wine - New Delhi
Ishan Mukhopadhyay- From an Artist's Lover-Kolkata
Mehul Thakkar- रेत से बना आशियाना- Vadodara
Rishav Sahoo- The Smell of Home- Balasore
Deepanjali Sharma- Shrouded Tradition-Jammu and Kashmir
Chakshu Purohit- खुद को ही तो जान लो- Rajasthan
Viplav Singh- बीती रात- Bengaluru
Rajanikant Gajera- याद- Ahmedabad
Vediccaa Ramdanee- Vivid- New Delhi
OM PRAVESH KUMAR RAVI- हे नारी- JHARKHAND
Bidisha Ganguly- Nightfall- Kolkata
Vinita Jain- ज़िन्दगी- Tezpur, Assam
Anusha M- Untie- Bengaluru, Karnataka
Merlin Maria- crossroads
Meera Geetha- Hampi, the city of ruins- Bengaluru, KA
Nirali Bandaru- A Tale- Vellore, Tamil Nadu
Asavari Sharma- Postcolonial Hangover- Gurgaon, Haryana
Gulshan Kumar- शायद नहीं,पता नहीं- Gaya, Bihar
Ankita Apurva- The taste of yours- Ranchi, Jharkhand
Ankush Banerjee- A Brief Guide to Unlearning Loss by Eating Sugar- New Delhi, Delhi
Hena Mary Jose Paul- Hey Brown Woman- Bengauluru, KA
Nachiket Dhote- क्या मै ज़िंदा हूँ- Nagpur, Maharashtra
Archit Roy- तुम प्यार हो या पागलपन हो!- Vellore, Tamil Nadu
Mohammad Udaipurwala- Petrichor- Secundarabad
Sushmita Regmi- Coffee- Udalguri, Assam
Saurabh Pandey- Love and Cheesecakes- Mumbai, Maharashtra
Snigdha Chaya Saikia- my therapist tells me I'm haunted- Guwahati, Assam
Kritika Swami- EXPECTATIONS VS. REALITY- Jaipur, Rajasthan
Vidhi Sharma- उत्तरदायित्व- Nagpur, Maharashtra
Renn J- The Broken Elevator- Bengaluru, KA
Megha Singhal- An ode to addicts- New Delhi, Delhi
Apaar Singhal- Roots & Shoots- New Delhi, Delhi
Deepak Kumar- हिंसा भीड़ की- Sangamner, Maharashtra
Arshi Hussain- We grew up- Kolkata, West Bengal
Kartikey Sehgal- It is the mind- Mumbai, Maharashtra
Mehar Sharma- विरान गांव- New Delhi, Delhi
Sejal Garg- साथ, हमेशा के लिए?- Ballabgarh, Haryana
Gurpartap Singh- The Marriage Party of Kali Yuga, The Age of Vice- Mohali, Punjab
Aakaash Francis- Don't Look At Me With Yesterday's Eyes- Mumbai, Maharashtra
Anjali Pathak- अश्रु- Solan, Himachal Pradesh
Pragya Vyas- रात- Chennai, Tamil Nadu
Somya Dhankhar- Ode to the different- Chennai, Tamil Nadu
Manveen Kaur- Categorically Crippled- New Delhi, Delhi
Tanu Sonpali- Mom- Dindori, Madhya Pradesh
Nahida Tabassum- मगर मस्त मगन फिरता हूँ- Ramgarh, Jharkhand
Iona Banerjee- Unending Poetry- Kolkata, West Bengal
Darsana Kakati- Allegory of my life- Dibrugarh,Assam
Tanya Gupta- Stray Dog- Ghaziabad, UP
Siddiqa Mithaiwala- Erase- Mumbai, MH
Chetan Dorwal- विश्वास - Jaipur, Rajasthan
Surbhi Sharma- Deaf Walls- New Delhi, Delhi
Adittya Gupta- I ask why- Kolkata, West Bengal
Abhishek Kataria- चाँद और तुम- New Delhi, Delhi
Kanika Jain- ज़िन्दगी फिर खिलखिलाएगी- Bangalore, KA
Nishtha Nayar- The threads- Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh
Kanishka Parakh- शाम- Bilai, Chattisgarh
Meghna Das- +850- Kolkata, West Bengal
Muskan Nandwani- Chaos- Surat
Sanyukta Singh- Knock Knock, Who's There?- Mumbai, Maharashtra
Abhik Dasgupta- Katthaki- New Delhi, Delhi
Shivangi Sharma- Gone- New Delhi, Delhi
Aashiesh Agarwaal- Let me wallow in grief- New Delhi, Delhi
Prince Krishnan- Sponged out self- Kollam, Kerala
Cherisha Sonawala- Brazilian Burn- Mumbai, MH
Anushka Tiwari- To The Valley That Sleeps- New Delhi, Delhi
Zia Khan- I’m Just A Human- Thane, Maharashtra
Heta Shah- अब कोइ आए ना पास- Vadodara, Gujurat
Sayali Parkar- No other love- Mumbai, Maharashtra
Rajagopal Kaimal- In and Out- Bangalore, KA
Pratiksha Gopalakrishnan- A U T U M N W I T H O U T H A T E- Madura, Tamil Nadu
Raymond George Dias- Testament- Ernakulam, Kerala
Nila Chenthil- Sita’s Sorrow- Chennai, Tamil Nadu
Naveen Singh- नया रूप- Kanpur, UP
Shilpa Chowdhury- Haiku Tales- Howrah, West Bengal
Pawan Kumar Upadhyay- मेरा दामन अब तो मौत के आँचल में पलने लगा- Noida, UP
Carolin Yanglem- THE PAST, THE NACHOM, THE HOME- Imphal, Manipur