Topic Summaries

'Name Journeys’ is a deeply personal and culturally layered poem that explores the speaker’s diasporic identity through the metaphor of her name. Drawing on Hindu mythology, the speaker aligns herself with figures like Rama, Sita, and Draupadi – archetypes of exile, chastity, and honour – to frame her own experience of displacement and resilience. The “journey” of her name symbolises both physical migration and the emotional transitions of growing up between cultures.