Sathi Mondal hasn’t been able to eat a morsel of food or drink a drop of water through her mouth for the past eight years, but that hasn’t stopped her from penning down hundreds of poems.Emerging as an embodiment of unwavering resilience and strength, she found her refuge in poetry and has channelled years of excruciating pain into thoughtfully written poetic verses.Following an intestinal infection and a wrongly diagnosed medical treatment in 2009, Sathi’s well-planned life went utterly off-track, and it was poetry that came as a respite for the young woman, as she shuttled between home and hospitals for multiple treatments.
“When I write poetry, or see my poems getting published in print, I forget all my problems. I feel I can live a hundred years,” she told IANS from her hospital bed.A resident of Ghoshpara in Nadia district of West Bengal, Sathi’s family, has always struggled to make ends meet.Having envisioned a career in sports, she took her studies quite seriously until a botched-up surgery dampened all her plans.A fitment of Ryles Tube in her stomach has been helping her ingest a liquid diet all these years. However, the process has been quite a strain for Sathi and often causes complications leading to frequent hospital visits for a change of tubes.
Having written more than 500 poems, at least a hundred pieces by Sathi have found its way to Bengali magazines like Collarge, Khola Haoa, Udvas, Lekha Diye Rekhapat, Chhayaman and Krishnachura. In fact, her poems have not just appealed to readers but have also garnered critical acclaim, and she now finds herself often being invited to various literary conferences across the state.
She considers Nobel poet laureate Rabindranath Tagore as her role model and also looks up to renowned Bengali poets like Nirendranath Chakraborty and Aranyak Basu, the latter of whom helps the young woman with monthly subsistence amount of ₹1,000.
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