Choosing the right words: Meet the Haijins

In a time of free verse poets, there is a small group of elderly men who are keen to teach and write haikus, one of the world’s shortest poetic forms.

“There’s a faint sadness in our current reality,” says Kishor Bajra Bajracharya, a haiku poet. The pandemic has changed lives all around us; the most ordinary things—such as visiting families or enjoying idle guffaws in public—have now become life-threatening.