Kaavakartat
Kaavakartat is a term in literary technique describing a method that fuses cartography and poetic composition to generate spatially navigable narratives. In Kaavakartat, landscapes—real or fictional—are rendered not only as descriptive scenes but as coordinates and contours encoded within verse. Each segment of text may correspond to a location, landmark, or waypoint, and the sequence of verses can function like a walk through a map.
The word is a contemporary coinage drawing on kavya, a Sanskrit-rooted term for poetic form, and karta,
Practically, Kaavakartat involves aligning poetic form with spatial cues: line breaks, meter, rhyme, or stanza breaks
Applications include world-building for novels and immersive experiences, digital humanities projects that explore place through verse,
Further reading on Kaavakartat remains limited to niche scholarly discussions and experimental anthologies.