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Temsula Ao ~ 25 October 1945 – 9 October 2022

Writers Workshop mourns the passing of Temsula Ao. Born in present-day Assam in 1945, she belonged to the Ao Naga community. She was Professor of English at North Eastern Hill University, from where she retired in 2010. Ao wrote poetry, fiction and nonfiction and was awarded the Padma Shri in 2007. In 1988, her debut volume, Songs That Tell became one of the first two poetry books from the northeastern states published by Writers Workshop. We also brought out her […]

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Books, Poetry, Redbird

Crossing the Line

Author: Prantik Banerjee Pages:94 Year of Publication: 2022 Price: Rs 300 ISBN: 978-81-958199-1-1 (9788195819911) About the Author Prantik Banerjee teaches English in Nagpur, Maharashtra. His first book of poems, A Postscript on Missing Keys, was published by Writers Workshop, India. The Keeper of the Dead and Other Stories is his first collection of short stories, published by Dattsons, Nagpur. He has also written Cultural Studies: Texts and Contexts and Theory in Praxis: Discourses on Literature and Culture. His writings have appeared […]

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Books, Poetry, Redbird

Resurrection

Author: Sharmishtha Illustrator: Anil Nakhasi Pages: 70 Year of Publication: 2022 Price: Rs 200 ISBN: 978-81-958199-0-4 (9788195819904) About the Author Influenced by Kashmiri mysticism and nature, Sharmishtha writes poems, short stories, plays and reflective articles. As a life-long student of Sociology, she writes extensively on education and emancipatory learning. Her first book, Endless Longings… Journey of a Kashmiri Girl (2012) was based on the themes of conflict, dispossession and resilience. A firm believer in the healing power of words, Sharmishtha brings […]

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A Transparency against the Sunlight

Author: Jyotsna Agnihotri Gupta Pages: 140 Year of Publication: 2022 Price: Rs 550 ISBN: 978-81-958199-5-9 (9788195819959) About the Author Jyotsna Agnihotri Gupta (born 1948) taught English at Lady Shri Ram College for Women, University of Delhi, from 1969 to 1980. Four of her poems feature in Professor P. Lal’s Modern Indian Poetry in English: An Anthology and a Credo, published by Writers Workshop, India, in 1971. In 1980 she moved to the Netherlands, where she has lived since with her family. […]