Muzakkirul Islam, who writes under the pen name Dermy, is a poet whose journey flows like a river-sometimes calm, sometimes restless, yet always carrying the music of words. Born in Assam, where the Brahmaputra sings and fields breathe poetry, he inherited a love for languages early in life. Assamese is his mother tongue, yet his heart found another home in Urdu-the language of ghazals, longing, and lyrical grace. With equal ease, he moves across English, Hindi, and Bengali, weaving them into his understanding of the human spirit.
Dermy's poetry dwells in silence and subtext, in the tender spaces between love and loss, return and departure, memory and forgetting. He believes that verses are not written but unveiled, much like a sculptor liberates the hidden statue within stone. His words often draw from lived realities, cultural roots, and the universality of human emotions.
Beyond poetry, Dermy has walked many paths-journalist, marketer, strategist, and storyteller-yet in every role, it is words that anchor him. He sees poetry not only as art but as a responsibility: to preserve beauty, question truths, and nurture voices in places where silence has been long.
With his pen, Dermy seeks to expand the presence of Urdu in Assam, becoming perhaps one of the first from his region to submit works to Rekhta. His vision is simple yet profound: to let poetry bridge distances between languages, between cultures, between hearts.
For him, every poem is a return, and every return, a rediscovery of the self.
