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Collected Works Volume 1: Hyderabad Quartet

Author: Hoshang Merchant Pages: 312 Year of Publication: 2011 Price: HB Rs 350 ISBN: 978-93-5045-012-3 (9789350450123) About the Author Hoshang Merchant is India’s first openly gay poet. He has published over 20 volumes of poetry with Writers Workshop, India, since 1989. He is a respected Queer Theorist with three critical studies on the subject published by national and international presses and has also published a study of Anais Nin with Writers Workshop (In-discretions: Anais Nin). He translates from Urdu as […]

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Lofty

Author: Anuradha Bhattacharyya Pages: 88 Year of Publication: 2015 Price: Rs 200 ISBN: 978-93-5045-100-7 (9789350451007) About the Author Dr. Anuradha Bhattacharyya teaches English in Postgraduate Government College, Sector 11, Chandigarh. Her childhood was spent in Durgapur, Roorkee, Jaipur and Kolkata. After completing her higher education in Kharagpur and Mumbai, she worked in New Delhi, before moving to Chandigarh. The experiences arising from having lived in so many cities have informed her writing. Dr. Bhattacharyya is strongly influenced by the writings […]

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The Blue Note

Author: Srividya Sivakumar Pages: 80 Year of Publication: 2012 Price: Rs 200 ISBN: 978-93-5045-039-0 (9789350450390) About the Author Srividya is a teacher, poet and editor. This is her first collection of poetry. Teaser superstition i cross fingers wish on mail vans send out a prayer to the train thundering over my head i toss salt over my shoulder kiss my fingers at the solitary bird always keep the label up on my blanket and i don’t dog-ear books or throw […]

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Winding Ways

Author: Tapati Baruah Kashyap Pages: 72 Year of Publication: 2013 Price: Rs 150 ISBN: 978-93-5045-047-5 (9789350450475) About the Author Born in 1967, Dr. Kashyap lives in Guwahati where she teaches English at Beltola Junior College. She was the recipient of a two-year fellowship awarded by the Ministry of Culture, Government of India, between 2008 and 2010 through which she undertook a study on women in Assamese poetry. Additionally, she was awarded The Assam Tribune group’s Kunjabala Devi Memorial Award in […]

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The Condensed Mahabharata of Vyasa

Transcreator: P. Lal Pages: 478 Year of Publication: First published 1980, Third edition 2010 (Revised and Corrected) Price: HB Rs 600, FB Rs 400 ISBN: HB 978-81-8157-955-3 (9788181579553) FB 978-81-8157-956-0 (9788181579560) Teaser Here is an excerpt from P. Lal’s preface: “There are many condensed versions in English of the Mahabharata of Vyasa but the only one that can be called a translation is Dr. V. Raghavan’s rendering which, by shortening the 100,000 shloka epic to about 2,000 shlokas, is microscopic […]

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The Mahabharata of Vyasa: Condensed from Sanskrit and transcreated into English (2nd Edition)

Author: P. Lal (transcreator) Pages: 478 Year of Publication: First published 1980, Second edition 2006 Price: HB Rs 400 ISBN: 81-8157-444-3 (8181574443) About the Book “There are many condensed versions in English of the Mahābhārata of Vyāsa but the only one that can be called a translation is Dr. V. Raghavan’s rendering which, by shortening the 100,000 śhloka epic to about 2,000 śhlokas, is microscopic in its compression. My aim has been to re-tell the story of the Kurukshetra war […]

Remembering Professor P. Lal

Remembering Professor P. Lal Professor P. Lal passed away on the 3rd of November 2010. Some of the articles written about him and condolence messages we received have been put up here. Obituaries: Scanned Images: Obituary in The Economist: The Economist Ruchir Joshi (The Telegraph, India): Ruchir Joshi – The Telegraph India Antara Dev Sen (The Asian Age): Antara Dev Sen Shashi Deshpande and others (The Hindu): Shashi Deshpande and others Rita Bhimani (The Telegraph, India): Rita Bhimani – The […]

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Translation of The Anushasana Parva completed! Writers Workshop Poet Wins the Srinivas Rayaprol Poetry Prize Writers Workshop Poet Wins the Srinivas Rayaprol Poetry Prize Joint Runners-Up at the Muse India Translation Awards, 2017 Surajit Borooah’s Translated Poems Adjudged Joint Runners-Up at the Muse India Translation Awards, 2017 Dipika Mukherjee on Writers Workshop: Dipika Mukherjee on Writers Workshop Reshma Aquil’s poetry: Reshma Aquil’s poetry An article on Professor P. Lal and Writers Workshop in The Telegraph, India: An article on Professor […]

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