As the title itself suggests, childhood and memory are the two very important dramatis personae of this book. Deepa Agarwal is an accomplished writer of literature for children and young adults. It is this biozone that her reading and imagination have revealed and animated for her readers. And, when she uses this expertise to cross-pollinate her poetry, the result is as vibrant as a field of wildflowers in the bugyals of the Himalayas.
Deepa Agarwal is the author of more than fifty published books. Forgotten Kaleidoscopes is her second volume of poems, the first being Do Not Weep Lonely Mirror, published in 2005. Sixteen years down the line and God alone knows what climate catastrophes Agarwal’s inner world has weathered, but she has managed to sustain the ecology of her poetry.