Author: Amanita Sen Pages: 48 Year of Publication: 2012 Price: Rs 150 ISBN: 978-93-5045-038-3 (9789350450383) About the Author Amanita Sen holds an M.A. in English Literature. Her poems were featured in a short experimental film, Paramesh which was screened at the Kolkata Film Festival (2011) and BYOFF (2012). She was cast as the sole character in the film as well. She is married and lives in Kolkata. Teaser The Blue Torment Suddenly there is a wall behind my back, With […]

Author: Paul Roche Pages: 101 Year of Publication: 2001 Price: HB Rs 200, FB Rs 100 ISBN: HB 81-7595-845-6 (8175958456) FB 81-7595-846-4 (8175958464) About the Author When pressed about his age Paul Roche would reply: “I’ll tell you that when I’m ninety, meanwhile I refuse to be labeled.” Much before this, when he was in his late twenties, he discovered he was a poet and went on to write thousands of lines of verse — most of it unpublished. Roche […]

Description: Author: Shamman Roshan Pages 95 Year of Publication: 1998 Price: HB Rs 150, FB Rs 60 ISBN: HB 81-7595-302-0 (8175953020) FB 81-7595-303-9 (8175953039) About the Author Born and brought up in Punjab, Shamman Roshan moved to Delhi as a graduate student where he worked as a clerk to earn his Master’s degree from Delhi University. Within a year and a half, he moved to the United States where he earned his Ph.D. in Comparative Literature in 1976. He has […]

Description: Author: Patricia Sharpe Pages: 89 Year of Publication: 2002 Price: HB Rs 150, FB Rs 100 ISBN: HB 81-7595-860-X (817595860X) FB 81-7595-861-8 (8175958618) About the Author: Patricia L. Shapre has lived and worked in many countries as a scholar, journalist and foreign service officer, especially India and elsewhere in South Asia, the area which has made itself her second home. Teaser: Ironemia You want me to be i- ronic, to approach by in- direction and speak (if I must) […]

Author: Pallavi Subba Rao Pages: 92 Year of Publication: 2009 Price: HB Rs 150, FB Rs 100 ISBN: HB 978-81-8157-919-5 (9788181579195) FB 978-81-8157-920-1 (9788181579201) Teaser Sense of Direction I go disoriented as my grey cells running the intellectual marathon, recede back in their steps. I am on a busy quest for direction. The nature is a prey to its own catastrophes, is not able to pull itself out of it. Its situations and moments make it or mar it. Our […]

Author: Chetan Tripathy Pages: 57 Price: HB Rs 250, FB Rs 200 Year of Publication: 2008 ISBN: HB 978-81-8157-733-7 (9788181577337) FB 978-81-8157-734-4 (9788181577344) About the Author The Future I Recall is Chetan Tripathy’s second collection of poems. His first – Dreams in My Eyes — was published in 2005 and subsequently translated into Kannanda by Professor Dayananda. Chetan was born in Hassan, Karnataka on 5 May 1988 and spent his childhood in Delhi, Ottawa, Bhubanseswar and Bangalore. His interest in […]

Description: Author: Amara Bavani Ramdev Pages: 56 Year of Publication: 1999 Price: HB Rs 80, FB Rs 50 ISBN: HB 81-7595-434-5 (8175954345) FB 81-7595-435-3 (8175954353) About the Author: Amara Bavani Ramdev was born and brought up in Madras. She grew up in a creative climate — as she says, “Words were my passion”. Teaser: To Doubt You To doubt You is to doubt the blue of the sky the softness of a rose-petal the innocence of a new-born babe To […]

Author: Ivy Imogene Hansdak Pages: 44 Year of Publication: 2010 Price: HB Rs 120, FB Rs 100 ISBN: HB FB About the Author Ivy Hansdak works as a senior lecturer in English in New Delhi. She received an M.Phil in English from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. As a poet, Hansdak has been influenced by English poetry as well as the alliterative and onomatopoeic folksongs of her mother tongue, Santali. Teaser Ode to Delhi In the acrid fumes of your […]

Description: Author: Rubana Huq (Editor) Pages: 409 Price: HB Rs 400, FB Rs 300 Year of Publication: 2008 ISBN: HB 978-81-8157-801-3 (9788181578013) FB 978-81-8157-802-3 (9788181578023) About the Author: Rubana Huq began pursuing her academic aspirations twenty years later than schedule. She is currently a researcher at Writers Workshop and hopes to do justice to her thesis on the impact of Writers Workshop on the pace and space of its poets. She lives and works in Dhaka and Kolkata both. She […]

Description: Author: Vera Sharma Pages: 52 Year of Publication: 2000 Price: HB Rs 100, FB Rs 60 ISBN: HB 81-7595-756-5 (817595756-5) FB 81-7595-757-3 (8175957573) About the Author: Vera Sharma was the daughter of Dr. Shridar Vyankatesh Ketkar, the first Marathi encyclopaedist, and his wife, Shilavatibai Ketkar, a schoolteacher and German translator. She worked in Information Service and journalism in India and the USA. Her work has been published in many journals around the world, and she has won many prizes. […]