Colours of Life in C.L. Khatri's 'Haiku'

This chapter deconstructs the Haiku of C. L. Khatri who, though not a haiku poet in strict sense, draws the reader’s attention through his 3 lines short pieces in his poetry collections, Two Minute Silence and For You to Decide. Khatri is flexible in form and content of his haiku. He does not follow the set parameter of seventeen syllables in three lines with a season word and caesura. Through his haiku, he strikes the intellect, appeals the heart and creates the picturesque world where the reader wonders at the ideas, presented in the reel of images. He reveals practical dimensions, bitter truth, contemporary colours, philosophical reflections, romantic fervours, political corners and natural environment through his ‘Haiku’ which offer matters to weigh, to consider, and to reflect.