Samir Satam's Blog
August 30, 2020
Getting praised by someone you look upto…
It’s with great pride and with a struggle to stay grounded, that I read these words of praise showered upon my book ‘Rhythm of Remembrance’.
I remember the first time I picked up Shubhangi Swarup’s lyrically luminous book ‘Latitudes of Longing’, I was in awe of the title, for the way it pairs a geographical term with an emotional one. Later as I absorbed…
…each word,
each phrase,
each sentence,
through page after glorious page,
I realised the depth of not just her talent but also her vision which reflects in her work. As Latitudes of Longing continues its victorious march across boundaries of awards and barriers of languages, somehow it brings me a sense of contentment as if it were my own victory.
Today when Shubhangi Swarup honours my work with her words, it’s difficult to not feel moved. I admit that today I feel proud, but ‘Rhythm of Remembrance’ a book in it’s own entity, is definitely more proud than me. Thank you, Shubhangi Swarup for your generous praise of my work.
July 18, 2020
June 20, 2020
Author Interview with Samir Satam
Author of ‘The Camphor of Night and ‘Rhythm of Remembrance’
About the Author: Samir Satam is a poet, photographer (@humminglens), writer (short stories, reviews) and an IT professional (Cloud Security). His first collection of poems ‘Postcards From Memory’ was published in 2014. He is an avid reader, a serious cinema lover who loves to explore films made in all languages.
In addition to pursuing his career in IT industry, Samir also works as a content curator with ‘Kaafiya’ and is actively involved in the literary movement that aims at bringing poetry to mainstream readership.
Samvedna: Tell us about your Books.
Samir Satam: My poems are the way I makesense ofthis world. Like photographs, poems too have a certain perspective from which a poet focuses on a feeling or an experience and captures it in words.
‘Rhythm of Remembrance’ is a collection of poems born out of love, loss and longing…
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June 14, 2020
‘Between laborious shifts of deep sleep’ by Samir Satam
A poem from the book ‘Rhythm of Remembrance’
May 8, 2020
Aren’t We?
May 5, 2020
rains…
A little stanza cut out of a longer poem from ‘Rhythm of Remembrance’…
May 3, 2020
Story behind the book cover of ‘Rhythm of Remembrance’:
I clicked this photograph during our trek to Stok village in Ladakh. This trip gave me a lot of time to reflect on my emotional landscape at that time. When I saw this old woman walking with a basket on her back, I somehow couldn’t help thinking about the life she must have led in these mountains, which must have been home to her happiness, sadness, ecstasies and griefs. Restless thoughts started rising, as my mind wandered thinking about this stranger, wondering about her childhood, her youth, her family. Had she lived all her life here in this small village where I had just come for a trek?
I had no way of understanding people who lived here, just a helpless desire to do so, which was of no use if it was not backed with any productive action. I wrongly thought this place and its people will soon slip out of my memory. A suffocating feeling of each of us being completely isolated from each other started to crawl upon me, the kind of feeling that makes us feel tiny and insignificant in this vast universe, with no way for us to get to know people in little corners of the world, to understand their lives, to empathize with them… All this started feeling so impossible… I had to shake myself out of that feeling as it had started making me feel increasingly helpless. However, this photograph stayed with me and I knew in an instance, which photograph to select when I was choosing the cover of my second book.
January 8, 2019
Kode – Where beauty is not just skin deep
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When gorgeous looks are accompanied with excellent taste, you hardly are left with anything to complain about. Well I am talking about food… And Kode delivers to match up with our expectations… And I must tell you, our expectations were pretty high when we planned a dinner at Kode…
You walk in to be greeted by a huge bar, sitting there, glistening as if sprinkled with star dust. The ambience of Kode has a lot going for it… It’s as romantic as it is appropriate for a get together or for a family dinner as long as you are in company of individuals who are able to appreciate both the visual as well as sensory art in their food…
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Wet Dreams:
Bourbon based Drink: 10 / 10 for taste (gingery goodness), though it wasnt a show-stopper in terms of presentation. But some good things come in subtle outfits… 
