Results 2019
The First Prize of One Lakh Rupees has been awarded to Eshna Sharma, a resident of Lucknow for her poem ‘Dinner Table Conversations’
The Second Prize of Fifty Thousand Rupees has been awarded to Biju Reddy, a resident of Hyderabad for his poem ‘Strapped on Cash’
The Third Prize of Twenty Five Thousand Rupees has been awarded to Shreya Deshpande, a resident of Pune for her poem ‘ख़ुशहाल’
Top 30 Prizes
The top 30 winners receive Ten Thousand Rupees each.
Prashant Bebaar (Chennai)- ज़िन्दगी ख़त्म से शुरू होती
Soorya Menon (Gujurat)- Room Number 3
Vivek Nidhi (Burdwan, West Bengal)- कौन हो तुम मेरे लिए
Vardaan Pandey (Delhi)- The New Us
Himanshu Kumar (Ranchi)- जीवन मंच
Aiswarya Thara Bhai Anish (Trivandrum)- The Story of a Yazidi Killing
Cherime Winchi R. Sangma (Meghalaya)- My Mother’s Memories
Hari Ram Singh (Gorakhpur)- आश्चर्य क्या होता है ?
Tialila Kikon (Dimapur, Nagaland)- Reminiscence of an Unscientific Head
Johnny Ahmed (Assam)- इंसान?
Probal Basak (Hooghly)- Au Revoir
Rishabh Yadav (Delhi)- O Cycle Man
Upasa Borah (Guwahati, Assam)- Zombie
Divjot Kaur (Delhi)- A Wedding Invite
Sudarshan Kumar (Kolkata)- A Step I Can’t Take Back
Ann Mary Alexander (Kollam)- Dosas
Anuradha Goswami- Nightmares
Chandrika Chandran (Chennai)- The Nature of Fear
Anusree Balakrishnan (Kozhikode)- The Tenant
Tabish Ahmed (Delhi)- Flight to Kashmir
Ellora Kothare (Mumbai)- Ajja
Karmishtha Krishna (Pune)- Bridges of Separation
Naina Kashyap (Guwahati, Assam)- The winds will answer for me
Shivani Anil (Kerala)- Of Love And Lies
Sukanya Shaji (Cochin)- Choice
Anushka Nagarmath (Mumbai)- Summersong
Deepali Tiwari (Allahabad)- The Last Chore
Vandana Jain (Gandhinagar)- प्रेम कुछ ऐसा ही होता है
Rangoli Yadav (Patna)- यह संसार
Chaitanya Sabharwal (Delhi)- Can you remember the first time we met?
Commendable Mentions
Nasir Nawaaz (Mumbai)- Checkmate
SHIVANSH KANDPAL (Chamoli, Uttarakhand)- ये दानव फिर से जाग रहे
Akshay Deora (Ahmedabad, Gujurat)- गलतफहमियां
Anagha Smrithi (Mumbai)- The Many Ways to Pay a Price
Wangchuk Bhutia (Kalimpong, Darjeeling)- Colours
Gaurav Bhatnagar (Delhi)- एक आग
Supriya Shekher (Jammu & Kashmir)- THEY SAY MY HOME IS DEAD
Nishigandha Date (Pune)- Stardust
Ankita Apurva (Ranchi)- My Poetry
RAKSHANDA GOSWAMI (Bharatpur)- बस बाकी सब ठीक है यहां
Mesak Lalsanlien Takhelmayum (Imphal, Manipur)- 25
RICKY KMENLANG MAWLONG (Shillong, Meghalaya)- Stop Being Cruel
Prafulla Sriniwas (Queensland, Australia)- लौटा दे वो बचपन की बातें
Ambica Uppal (Gurgaon)- Dream Like A Child
Shasya Goel (Delhi)- Roots
Kavita Singh (Kanpur)- देर नहीं लगती
Aakanksha Jha (Mumbai)- What does your dark place look like?
Neeraj Tiwari (Delhi)- डरना क्या, आखिर क्या होना है
Sanya Malik (Gurgaon)- pins & needles
Ruppesh Nalwaya (Bangalore)- तुम कायर हो तो वार करो
Diya Kandhari (Delhi)- “You can’t change the system”
Mohit Mishra (Dadra and Nagar Haveli)- शून्य धन शून्य, शून्य होता है।
Ekshikaa S (Chennai)- The Great Indian Mindset
Hamsi Radhakrishnan (Bangalore)- Breakfast Effort
Jyotsna Jha (Kolkata)- Bonsai
Priyanshu Rawat (Pauri Garhwal, Uttarakhand)- अब मेरी चाहत सी लगती है
Debadrita Ghosh (Kolkata)- Dames and Glory
Mukulika Batabyal (Kolkata)- A Tower, Every Hour
Suchita Vardhan (Delhi)- बदलते मायने
Tanvi Nagar (Delhi)- DEAR ROSE
Neeraj Manral (Ludhiana)- शब्द
Shreyaa Deori (Guwahati, Assam)- all of my skin
Hasit Bhatt (Ahmedabad)- चश्म-ए- बददूर
Devanshi Bhati (Delhi)- A TALE OF TWO BOATS
MK Abhilash (Bangalore)- kitchen sweet kitchen
Sachin Motwani (Delhi)- दामिनी
Geralyn Pinto (Mangalore)- From August to September
Milinda Mishra (Bhubaneshwar)- Women of color
Zara Fatima Ali (Dehradun, Uttarakhand)- Uski Beedi
Bethamehi Joy Syiem (Bangalore)- Station
AYEBI DEBBARMA AYEBI (Pune)- The Sunset I love
Hiya Mukherjee (Kolkata)- Broomstick Sonata
Riya Nagpal (Delhi)- Jack-o-lantern
Ashna Sikri (Delhi)- Perseverance
Ragavendra Kuppuswamy (Roorkee, Uttarakhand)- Uncle Giri
Resmin Sultana (Guwahati, Assam)- Attachments of Childhood
Zoya Azhar (Lucknow)- The Doormat
Nadia Nooreyezdan (Mumbai)- I Love You Oceans
Ajit Menon (Chennai)- I think you will miss me, imperfectly
Lipokmenla Ao (Dimapur, Nagaland)- Home
Vinitta Mathew (Trivandrum)- Poetic Prelude
Adrija Basani (Bangalore)- Sand
Naphilakmen Syiemlieh (Shillong, Meghalaya)- The Indian Streets
Aditi Upadhyaya (Bangalore)- eccentricity
Amrisha Sinha (Gurugram)- sick of/ from
Aakanksha Rehan (Delhi)- Freedom!
RAJESHWARI PATWARDHAN- Saturday Rituals
Lambila Ngangom (Dimapur, Nagaland)- The tears of a poet
Kinshuk Gupta (Delhi)- The Blunted Edges of Religious Teeth
NIRUPAMA RAJANALA (Hyderabad)- I AM AT WAR WITHIN
Maniti Shah (Mumbai)- An ode to something I love ~ Everything I am not supposed to
Sonal Keni (Bangalore)- doomsday
Priya Suresh (Bangalore)- A Wake-up Call
Ayesha Salma Mohammed (Hyderabad)- Fireflies
Mewan Banshan War (Shillong, Meghalaya)- I'd like to file a complaint, Sir.
Rizvana Parveen (Bangalore)- Life Here
Supraja Vasu (New Delhi)- Cigarettes will kill you
Gauri Chincholkar (Mumbai)- flawed
Lamneivah Kipgen (Chennai)- Four leaf Clover
Ayana S Suresh (Kerala)- Penne...Penne...Penne...
Safiq Ul Islam (Assam)- O River Brahmaputra
Kiruthika AS (Salem, TN)- Delicious Meals
Suvrahadip Ghosh (Valsad)- 525,600 minutes
Sriharsh Bhyravajjula (Hyderabad)- kakinada
Saumya (Aurangabad)- Forgetting to breathe
Sheetal Patil (Pune)- दावानल
Asha Devi (Nagaon, Assam)- नारी
Shambhavi Tiwari (Delhi)- जंगल की कोई उम्र
Hitpal Singh Ranawat (Udaipur)- बड़ा ज़ालिम है
Siddharth Tripathi (Bhopal)- एक गलत गूंज थी वो
Ashwarya Kedia (Burdwan, West Bengal)- इंसानियत से इश्क
Amar Dev Bahuguna (Dehradun, Uttarakhand)- शाश्वत अनुराग
Ishant Gaba (Ludhiana)- एक तरफा प्यार
Bhoomika Bhati (Bangalore)- कबीरा
Devesh Tanay (Bombay)- ट्रेन की खिड़कियाँ
POOJA DABI (Nagpur)- क्या देश बदल रहा है
Ramniwas Singh Chahar (Bangalore)- संकल्प
Manika Kargeti (Marburg, Germany)- शिकवे हज़ार
Sanjeev Kumar (Delhi)- गुरुर और कुर्सी
Yogita Sharma (Panoli, Himachal Pradesh)- नज़रिया यादों का
Carl Colaco (Vellore, Tamil Nadu)- Sunrise Lolly & Strawberry Heart Pops
Rachit Agarwal (Ahmedabad) -बस अब बहुत हुआ
Saumya Singh (Lucknow)- जीवन चक्र
Sharanya Nath (Kota, Rajasthan)- Banyan
Shubham Jain (Delhi) मज़ार-ए-कुदरत
Shivani Jatrele (Delhi) बकरी और ऑफिस
Indu Srivastava (Fatehpur) वतन की माटी
Shubhra Chandel (Guna, Madhya Pradesh) ईश्वर संदेश
Mansi Jain (Delhi) Is Everything Okay?
Siddhi Prabhu Chodnekar (Goa) कुछ अधुरी यादें
Silpa Anand S (Thrissur, Kerala) In this place...
Mandar Mutalikdesai (Bangalore) She asks me Why
Ishan Dubey (Jabalpur) Ornament
Nida Rashid (Pune) The one and only answer
Gunjan Kela (Mumbai) Patriarch
Akhilesh Sharma(Hyderabad) मंज़र
NIKHEEL MEHRA (Madhya Pradesh) "काश"
Sheetal Martine Joseph (Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala) My three attempts
Tanvi Srivastava (Houston, Texas) My Grandpa lives on
Esha Srivastava (Gurgaon) Words (Lavz)
ARUN KUMAR SINGH (Kolkata) धुंध
Subi Kumari (Ranchi) तारीफ़-ए-हर्फ़
Pratik Thakare (Indore, Madhya Pradesh) मुंबई रिटर्न
Gitanjali Sreenivas Narayan ( Bengaluru) Clouds
Anjali Khanna, (Delhi) Ode to Yourself
Kevin Mathew, (Kottayam, Kerala) The Train Must Go On
Ananya Utkarsh (Mumbai ) Love Ballad
Malaika G (Thane, Maharashtra) what is a house no one wants to come home to? - a n i g h t m a r e
Praveen chaudhary Mahendra singh (Hathras, UP) पहली पंक्ति
Amartyakumar Mitra,( Hoogly) Brink
Surabhi Choudhary,( Aurangabad, Maharashtra ) Jealous
Vishakha Srivastava (Bangalore) Interim
YUGAL PATHAK (Haldwani, Uttarakhand) खामोश!!कोई सुन लेगा कहीं....
Mikri Riba (Arunachal Pradesh) The Wanderer
Khushboo Tangariya (New Delhi) निशब्द
Hima Raju ( Trichur, Kerala) An Angry Poem
Mrudula Kuvalekar (Mumbai) S. L. U. T.
Abhishek Pde( Shillong) Mute
USHA DIPTIVILASA, (NOIDA) ROMANCING THE TRAIN
Sujatha Sivan Janardhanam, (Chennai, TN) Am I any Different?
Mayank Manchanda, (Faridabad Haryana) An-Acceptable Poem
Paulami Ghosh, (Kolkata) Disguise : Asmodeus
Sundar S Nathan, (Chennai) I’m Madras and I take pride
Srishtika Prakash, (Bengaluru ) Home
Neeta Mohla, (Raigarh, CG) 12 Million Mourning
Aishwarya Jayasankar, (Thirumala) Originals
Ishitv Vats, (Patna) apocalypse/movies
Swathy Janardhanan , (Kottayam, Kerala) April Showers
Shruti Shhreyasi, (Gurgaon ) another millennial tragedy
Archit Aggarwal, (Madhya Pradesh )घर
Tushar Jain, (Bangalore) Stray, unable to sway
Bishnupriya Mukherjee, (Kolkata) Anew.
Samiya Javed Akhtar,( New Delhi) Carcinoma
Aditya Sen, (New Delhi) Believe
Ipsita Banerjee, (Kolkata ) For my daughters
Susmitha M, (Kozhikhode, Kerela) A Long Lost Love
Moninder Jain, (Noida) The Animallunati
Swapnil, (Patna) When Would Our Fury Sing In Chorus?
Mukta Pansari, (BHUBANESWAR) Word Games
Titiksha Rout, (Bengaluru) The Intercom Lover- 2041
JUNAID YAHYA, (New Delhi) Travel
Velülü Khesoh, (Nagaland) Suspension Trajectory
Sini Fernandes, (Goa) Rainbow in my window
Yash Jain , (Delhi ) ' दुनिया का सबसे बड़ा रोग , क्या कहेंगे लोग '
Pooja Elangbam, (Manipur) You have come a long way from home
Sanjana Saksena, (Bangalore) Parched Throats
Malvika Hasrajani,( Bangalore) Elegy to Kathak
Siddhi Lodha, (Pune) A retake at life
Aarushi Kataria, (New Delhi) If I Believed In Magic I Would Go To A Cemetery
Mahika Khanduri,( New Delhi) Wrong Station
Anmol Rathore, (Gujarat) Home
Komal Hirani (Sanganer ) स्वेटर
Nayana Nair,( Bangalore) Ready to Break
Nishu Mishra, (Jharkhand ) सपने और संधर्ष
Sarani Roy, (Murshidabad) ये घर नहीं ये तो हॉस्टल है
Dr. Priti Chahar, (Agra) गुफ़्तगू ....ख़ुद से !
Raj Sargam, (Himachal Pradesh) गहराते जा रहे दाग
Avantika Singh Sengar(Gwalior) प्यार की परिभाषा
Shalini Pandey, (Nainital) जोड़ते हुए
AVANI BHATIA, (Mathura) टूटी यारियाँ
Venuka Anand, (Jharkhand ) कशमकश
Prerna Talukdar, (Assam) #NoPrideinPrejudice
Debanjali Das, (Delhi) Jobless urban
Babatdor Dkhar, (Shillong) Love In The Time Of Authority
Meghna Yesudas( Mumbai) This is an Apology Note
Aminah Neemah (Manipal) Lost in translation
Bipasha Saikia, (Guwahati) Scroll of a Marginalized
ANKITA SINGH, (Allahabad) अनुपयुक्त सर्वश्रेष्ठ
Aakanksha Singh, (Uttar Pradhesh ) AANSU
Suyash Bharatiya, (New Delhi) Hear my “unsaid”
Aditi Das, (Raghunathpur, West Bengal) Similipal Forest
Mamtamayi Priyadarshini,( Gurgaon) पानी की प्यास
Sneha Sharma, (Assam) साजिश
Rashmi Gandhi, (Banswara, Rajasthan) कुछ तो हिसाब होना चाहिए
ATAL KASHYAP, (Bhopal) चाय
Shashank Sharma,( Udaipur) ऐसे कई लम्हें
Abhishek Bajpai, (Kanpur) मेरे जीवन साथी
Kunwar Digvijay, (New Delhi) कुछ कहता पानी
Soumya Rathee,( UP) रेत के टीले
ANUJ VERMA, (Mumbai) दो सहेलियाँ
Meenakshi Hariharan ( Bangalore ) Jack and Maria
Khushbu Jain ( Pune) गैर जिमेदार
Ruchi Jain (Odisha) चल देना
Krishna Kant (New Delhi) Living
Neasha Mittal (New Delhi) Patriotism - unites or separates?
Ahaan Sinha (New Delhi) दो दिन का सफ़र...
Rajosik Mitra (Kolkata) Honestly
Regional Language Category
The First Prize of Twenty Thousand Rupees has been awarded to Dwaita Hazra Goswami, a resident of Murshidabad for her poem ‘তাহার সঙ্গে তাহার’
The Second Prize of Ten Thousand Rupees has been awarded to Mandar Naik, a resident of Mumbai for his poem ‘ओळख’
The Third Prize of Seven Thousand Five Hundred Rupees has been awarded to Asma Tariq, a resident of Aligarh for her poem ‘آپ تھوڑا صبر تو رکھیں’
Top 20 Prizes
The top 20 winners receive Three Thousand Rupees each.
Parag Baruah (Rampur Hatinga, Assam)-জলছবি
Moksha Shashidhar (Tumkur, Karnataka)- ನಾ ಅರಳುವ ಮುನ್ನ
Rajnikant Gajera (Ahmedabad, Gujurat)- તારા પછી મારો!
Dr. A Kayalvizhi (Salem, Tamil Nadu)- சேலையின் செருக்கு!
ATHIRA SADANAND (MALAPPURAM DT KERALA)- മൂന്ന് നിരീക്ഷണങ്ങള്
KAILASH CHANDRA SAMANTARAY (Bhubaneswar, Orissa)- କୁଶଳେଶ୍ବରାୟ ନମଃ
Gurpreet Kaur Gill (Amritsar, Punjab)- ਰੋਂਦਾ ਸ਼ਿੰਗਾਰ
Arivukkarasi Manivannan (Trichy, Tamil Nadu) – கனவுகள்
Heramb Sukhathankar (Mumbai, Maharashtra)- सरळसोट
AMNA MASROOR KARIMI (Gaya, Bihar)-
میں نے وقت کی نزاکت کو بدلتے دیکھا ہے
Abhilash Kanhangad (Bangalore)- ಸದ್ದು ಮೌನ ಸದ್ದು
DHRUBA MUKHERJEE KUMAR (West Bengal)- প্রচন্ড তৃষ্ণা ছিল
Sashi Prava Mishra (Bhbaneshwar)- ନିଶବ୍ଦ ସଂଗୀତ
Parineet Jaggi (Sri Ganganagar, Rajasthan)- ਹਰਫ਼ਾਂ ਦੇ ਮੇਲੇ
S.Richa Reddy (Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh)- మనస్సు -ఒక పెద్ద వరం
Deepa Sridharan (Chennai, Tamil Nadu)- அப்பா
Monalisha Gogoi (Guwahati, Assam)- Ahiba me Tumi?
PRATYAYEE DUTTA (Nadia, West Bengal)- বদল
Mukta Bam (Pune, Maharashtra)- कॅफेपासची चिमुरडी
Archana BM (Hassan, Karnataka)- ಮಾನವೀಯತೆ
Commendable Mentions
Vasuki Ravi ( Kancheepuram)- ஒரு போர் கதை
Anirban Mondal (Barasat)- অলীক ভাবনারা
Rajashree Sarkar (West Bengal)- অভিমানী
Sohini Ghosh (Kalyani) -হতেম যদি বোহেমিয়ান
Gairika Ghosh (Kalyani) -জীবনখানা পরিপাটি
Subhadip Banerjee( Kolkata) -রাহুগ্রাস
Srijita Nandi (Nadia) - কালো দিবস
Trishamani Deka (Jalukbari) -অপ্ৰাসংগিক
Ravbeer Kaur Dhillon (Amritsar)-ਇਕ ਦਿਲ ਜੋ ਸਭ ਮਹਿਸੂਸ ਕਰੇ....
Abhishek Choudhary ( Fatehgarh Sahib) - ਮੈਂ ਨਹੀ ਜੀਣਾ
Haider Ali, Village (Kup Khurdh, Punjab)- Aitraz kyu
Gurpreet Kaur (Mohali) -ਮੇਰੀ ਕਵਿਤਾ
Anamika Saggu (Yamuna Nagar) -ਮੇਰੀ ਅੰਬੜੀਏ
Prabhleen Kaur (Jalandhar) -ਮਾਨਸ ਕੀ ਜਾਤ ਸਬੈ ਏਕੈ ਪਹਿਚਾਨਬੋ
Harpreet Singh (Jalandhar) -ਹਾਲ ਸਰਕਾਰਾਂ ਦੇ
Jiun Singh Kahlon (Village Girdhai, Punjab)- ਕਿਸਾਨੀ ਰੱਬ ਆਸਰੇ
Navroop Kaur (Ludhiana) -ਅਰਦਾਸ
Faizan Lakhnavi ( Fatehpur)-ऐसी हमारी है मंज़िल
Ima Iqbal ( Kanpur )-उम्मीद
Gurbaz Kaur( Fatehgarh Sahib) -Zawaal
Priyanka Chugh (Panipat) आब-ए-तल्ख़ -(Ghazal)
Sara Batool (Lucknow)- आज फिर ज़िन्दगी के झूलते बेईश्क़ लम्हे
AISHWARYA P (Chennai)-பெண்ணவளே
Madhusudhanan (Manohar, Chennai) -கானல்நிறம்
SUSMITA S (Dharmapuri Dt) - உணர்வாயோ…….
Suman.G. Makanur (Bengaluru) -ಸ್ನೇಹ ಪರತೆ
Sangeeta Meghwal ( Nagaur District, Rajasthan) -क्यों बदल दूं
Junior Category
The First Prize of Ten Thousand Rupees has been awarded to Anurima Mukherjee, a resident of Asansol for her poem ‘Through Calcutta’s Streets’
The Second Prize of Seven Thousand Five Hundred Rupees has been awarded to Misha Oberoi, a resident of Delhi for her poem ‘Kaagaz Nahi The’
The Third Prize of Five Thousand Rupees has been awarded to Y Meenakshi, a resident of Secundarabad for her poem ‘City Life in Eyes of 11Years old’
Top 10 Winners
The top 10 winners receive Two Thousand Five Hundred Rupees each.
Ananya Karn- Gandhinagar Basti, UP- जाली मित्रता
Prushti Goswami- Greater Noida- If You Are Bored
Katyayani Malhotra- New Delhi- Animals
Unmesh Singh- Gwalior- Dinosaurs
Nitya Kaul- Kolkata- My Horse
Sana Abraham, Panjim, Goa- Problems
Anjali Mundra, Ratlam- कुछ समझ नहीं आता
RASHI CHOUDHARY- DIST. PASCHIM BURDWAN- अफसोस
Yashika Das- New Delhi- ART EXHIBITION
Dia Bhojwani- Mumbai- Questions You Can’t Answer