By Prithvijeet Sinha
Each poem is akin to a personal conversation, a one-on-one exchange that displays her talent given its distinctive personable nature.
Tag: Book Review
By Nishi Pulugurtha
Afsar Mohammed’s Evening with a Sufi, translated from Telugu by Afsar Mohammed and Shamala Gallagher and published by Red River, is a collection of poems that has been selected from several of his poetry volumes in Telugu.
By Namrata Pathak
Like Barthes, in Malhotra’s poems, too, we come across the lover’s inner monologue, in which the readers will find themselves anchored or at least recognize a speck of their personality or a part of their being.
By Mohammad Asim Siddiqui
All through the book, Satpathy argues how the very idea of nationalism, which contains many contradictions, is not only a result of some controversies but it also leads to many fresh controversies.
By Dustin Pickering
Srividya Sivakumar and Paresh Tiwari’s anthology, The Shape of a Poem: The Red River Book of Contemporary Erotic Poetry, heartily admits through many of its poets, the erotic stimulates the imagination but is something that remains unfulfilled.
By Md. Firoj Ahmmed
Although The Revenge of the Non-vegetarian is not like Chatterjee’s ground-breaking debut novel English, August, he certainly raises some grave religious and political questions that have beset contemporary India.
By Amulya Anita Gurumurthy
Perumal Murugan places the biographies of the characters in their historical context; assesses the personal against the political and the individual in light of the structural. While his characters operate within the confining cartography of the village, they are complex and agentic, often negotiating systemic oppression.
By Chaitali Sengupta
Santosh Bakaya’s ‘Runcible Spoons and Peagreen Boats’ is a fascinating memoir in the poetic form where the poet recounts the pivotal moments in a way that either catches your heart or makes you stop and look back at your own life and reflect.
By Sabreen Ahmed
The everyday wonderland concocted through a maze of measured words is the crux of Goswami’s poetic vision of peaceful contentment in concordance with the acceptance of the vital signs of living.
By Anshif Ali
David Diop’s enthralling novel ‘At Night All Blood Is Black’ undermines the stereotypes of African savagery and exposes the barbarity of European colonial officers in particular and of war in general.
By Rochelle Potkar
The poems in Oindri Sengupta’s ‘After the Fall of a Cloud’ seem to drift through devastation, levitating to new hinging of metaphysical abandon.
By Sadia Hashmi
Baran Farooqi’s translation of Khalid Jawed’s Ne’mat Khana is an important contribution to Indian literature.
By Nabanita Sengupta
Chakraborty’s novel talks about the anxieties, depression, and helplessness of two young men caught in the rush of city life.
By Suranjana Choudhury
In making for himself a claim to write, the poet constantly negotiates with all the conflicting emotions that writing offers. It is the same with loving. Readers profoundly experience this truth, and that is enough.
By Chaitali Sengupta
Burn the Library and Other Fictions is an intense exploration of human condition that tug at your heartstrings. The well-structured stories are rich, unusual, and varied in their range. Such range gives this slim volume considerable merit and deserve greater attention.
By Annapurna Palit
The Rainbow is a recurrent metaphor in this collection and colour overrides Chakraborty’s poetic vision. Death, violence, loneliness, love and hope are represented by images of colour that glide slickly through the verses.
By B. Gopal Rao
Reading Jhilam’s poetry is an aesthetically satisfying experience since it is the product of a highly imaginative mind and sensitive soul.
By Malashri Lal
Shailja Chandra internationalizes Gulzar through this exchange from Australia and also by linking the poet’s philosophy and quest with a range of other writers.
By Nishi Pulugurtha
The poems in The Fern-Gatherer’s Association bring together ideas, images, associations, endowing the known and familiar with a dreaminess that fills the senses.
By Gopal Lahiri
Kavita Ezikiel’s latest poetry collection Light of the Sabbath stands out for its sheer promise, clarity and startling originality that lingers with you for a longer period. We feel a powerful sense of connection in the end.
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