By Jindagi Kumari
In reading The Last Queen, one feels treated as a companion and confidante of the uninhibited and vulnerable protagonist who shares her life, decisions, desires, flaws, in a voice that is as spontaneous as it is majestic.
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By Nishi Pulugurtha
What comes out clearly through the poems in the volume is a keen eye, of being able to look beyond the obvious, of reaching out into the known and the unknown.
By Chaitali Sengupta
Non-violence was for King a way of life, just as it was for the Mahatma.
By Paromita Patranobish
The Toni Morrison Book Club testifies to the enduring relevance of Morrison’s works as an atlas for navigating the racialized topographies of the present.
By Atiqa Kelsy
Trying to know Meera is like waking right into the middle of the famous Sheesh Mahal. The person right in the centre is reflected in the countless mirrors. It is so tempting to get lost in those dazzling reflections and forget the real source – the person. Meera Vs Meera is an attempt to help us focus back on to the person and not the dazzling images.
By Nishi Pulugurtha
Weaving expressions, images and feelings brilliantly the poems in this volume add to Jaydeep Sarangi’s poetic oeuvre.
By Srirupa Dhar
As we perceive and feel the humanity oozing through Nishi Pulugurtha’s poetic creations, we can’t resist thinking that the most ordinary or the most forgotten and ignored redefine the merging spaces between the real and the unreal.
By Dustin Pickering
This collection is not for the weak-willed or -minded. Each poem/prose retains a bright reality and sage wisdom. From cover to cover, this volume is intellectually fastidious.
By Nishi Pulugurtha
This translation makes available some of Soumitra Chatterjee’s poetry to readers all over the world, revealing the working of a mind that had myriad interests and a creativity that had a great range.
By Anindita Das
Bhaswati Ghosh’s debut novel Victory Colony, 1950 is a story of bereavement, estrangement, and resilience in the backdrop of the 1947 Partition.
By Paromita Patranobish
The Sound of A Wild Snail Eating, although written a decade ago, appears to be particularly relevant in terms of the concerns and perspectives it raises for the altered landscape of the pandemic-inflected present.
By Gracy Samjetsabam
They send out a message that the future may be vague but man is determined to stay positive, adapt and adopt, which would bear fruit only if we respond and act in the spirit of “metanoia” and “togetherness”.
By Gabriel Rosenstock
This Road of Mine is a rollicking read from start to finish and the translator has served the author well – though I’m unhappy with a few phrases such as ‘blow your mind’ and ‘on a high’ which are completely out of register.
By Gopal Lahiri
Utpal Chakraborty’s Kirigami validates a distinctive voice as well as a convincing and captivating command of tone, texture, style and technique. It’s a fine debut collection by a promising poet and a joy to read.
By Hemaadri Singh Rana
However, with its cogency on legal instruments on statelessness in India and robust arguments on the need to change the condition of Rohingya, the book is of contemporary relevance and may attract legal scholars and policymakers working in the field of refugee studies and social sciences.
By Gopal Lahiri
Lopamudra Banerjee’s poems shimmer with luminous connection, landscape of longing and draw map of fury against the gender gap and inequalities.
By Shafey Anwarul Haque
Megha Majumdar’s A Burning is worthy of becoming a bestseller and the author deserves all the praise for bravely unearthing the bitter truth of our time.
By Nishi Pulugurtha
There is a sense of despondency in many of the stories, of deafening defeat that shatters and a faint flicker of hope that glimmers and fades. Modestly priced and well mounted, the volume makes for a breezy reading.
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