Raincheck Renewed - Poetry by Poetry by Kavita Jindal

Jindal ought to be wearing a mask! She sweet-talks the reader with whimsical or pleasant introductory lines and stanzas and then ambushes them with a cynical twist ... Raincheck Renewed is a welcome addition to the burgeoning collections of work by Hong Kong based poets.
-- David McKirdy in The Asian Review of Books

In Raincheck Renewed, the social role leads to the satirical and the female role leads to the feminist.

Like in her poem about the Ming bowl that is used as an ashtray, Kavita Jindaląs poetry is about an environment that does not value the valuable.

But whether frustrated by high society or rebelling against imposed roles, she has realised her own strength and knows her promise.

Kavita is a poet with a promise. In the several poems addressed to her father, in the poem 'Time', she makes her promise about what she owes herself, and to find and live her voice as a poet.

The poem 'Morphing' summarises her position and her direction, where a "diminutive fairy" burrowed "in a safe spot", realizes her "adventurous soul" and begins "to return to an ordinary size".
-- Mani Rao