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‘The Square Root of a Sonnet’ at the Royal Institute of London

The Square Root of a Sonnet, written by Nilanjan Choudhury and published by Writers Workshop, was performed at the renowned Royal Institution of London on 19th and 20th July, 2024. It was produced by the Centre for Film & Drama, India and directed by Prakash Belawadi, under the patronage of the Murty Trust. “It has been a humbling, exhilarating and extraordinary experience to stage the play at the 200+ years old Royal Institution – in the same theatre where people […]

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The Square Root of a Sonnet

Author: Nilanjan P. Choudhury Pages: 76 Year of Publication: 2017 Price: Rs 150 ISBN: 978-93-5045-158-8 (9789350451588) About the Author: Nilanjan P. Choudhury is a Bangalore-based theatre person, writer and IT professional. As an actor and director, he has worked in over 200 stage performances, with many of Bangalore’s leading theatre companies, like Centre for Film and Drama, Bangalore School of Speech and Drama, and Artistes Repertory Theatre. His previously published works include a mythological thriller, Bali and the Ocean of Milk, and a crime caper, […]

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Singing in Mariupol

Author: Joe Winter Pages: 88 Year of Publication: 2023 Price: Rs 400 ISBN: 978-81-961291-6-3 (9788196129163) About the Author Joe Winter was born in 1943. He took up poetry at university where he studied Latin and Greek and English Literature. From 1967 to 1993 he taught English in London comprehensive schools, and in 1994 moved to Kolkata where he taught part-time before returning to England in 2006. In Kolkata he wrote a number of articles for The Statesman and other journals on […]

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At the Tate Modern

Author: Joe Winter Pages: 76 Year of Publication: 2021 Price: Rs 250 ISBN: 978-81-949985-8-7 (9788194998587) About the Author Joe Winter was born in 1943. He took up poetry at university where he studied Latin and Greek and English Literature. From 1967 to 1993 he taught English in London comprehensive schools, and in 1994 moved to Kolkata where he taught part-time before returning to England in 2006. In Kolkata he wrote a number of articles for The Statesman and other journals on literary […]

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Six Stone Circles of Cumbria

Author: Joe Winter Pages: 64 Year of Publication: 2019 Price: Rs 200 ISBN: 978-81-944057-0-2 (9788194405702) About the Author Joe Winter was born in 1943. He took up poetry at university where he studied Latin and Greek and English literature. From 1967 to 1993 he taught English in London comprehensive schools, and in 1994 moved to Kolkata where he taught part-time before returning to England in 2006. In Kolkata he wrote a number of articles for The Statesman and other journals on literary […]

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Indian Poems

Author: Didier Coste Pages: 68Year of Publication: 2019Price: Rs 250 / € 12ISBN:978-93-5045-198-4 (9789350451984) About the AuthorBorn in 1946, Didier Coste is a French and Australian trilingual writer, translator, cultural theorist and Emeritus Professor of Comparative Literature. A frequent visitor to India, he has been twice a Fellow of the Jawaharlal Nehru Institute of Advanced Study (Jawaharlal Nehru University) and a guest of Jadavpur University, Delhi University and the University of Rajasthan. His poetry in English includes Vita Australis, bilingual […]

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Orpheus in Kolkata

Author: Joe Winter Pages: 80 Year of Publication: 2016 Price: Rs 200 ISBN: 978-93-5045-134-2 (9789350451342) About the Author: Joe Winter was born in London in 1943 and began writing poetry at the age of 19, as a university student. He taught English in secondary schools in London from 1967 to 1993 and between 2006 and 2011. He lived in Calcutta from 1994 to 2006 where he taught part-time as well. All his books of poems have been published by Writers Workshop, […]

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Arriving Shortly

Author: K. Srilata Pages: 96 Year of Publication: 2011 Price: Rs 200 ISBN: 978-93-5045-015-4 (9789350450154) About the Author An award-winning poet, fiction writer and translator, K. Srilata is Associate Professor of English at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Madras. Her books include The Other Half of the Coconut: Women Writing Self-Respect History (Zubaan/Kali for Women, 2003), Short Fiction from South India (co-edited with Subashree Krishnaswamy and published by OUP in 2007), Rapids of a Great River: The […]

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Mappings

Description: Author: Vikram Seth Pages: 72 Year of Publication: 1981, 1991 (second edition) Price: HB Rs 100, FB Rs 80 ISBN: HB 81-7189-138-1 (8171891381) FB 83-7189-139-X (837189139X) About the Author: Since Vikram Seth needs no introduction, given below is his authorial profile as it was recorded when Mappings, his first book, was brought out in 1981: “Vikram Seth was born in Calcutta in 1952. He was schooled in India, and took his undergraduate degree in Politics, Philosophy and Economics in […]

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Musings Before Dawn

Description: Author: Ateesh Tankha Pages: 65 Year of Publication: 1999 Price: HB Rs 80, FB Rs 50 ISBN: HB 81-7595-560-0 (8175955600) FB 81-7595-561-9 (8175955619) About the Author: Born in 1974, Ateesh Tankha spent the first 24 years of his life in Calcutta, a city he loves passionately, for which he composed a monograph, Old Calcutta, in 1997. After attending St. Xavier’s School and La Martiniere, he joined Presidency College. Besides creative writing and reading, he is deeply interested in theatre […]