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One Hundred Questions for Light

Author: Mandira Mitra Chakraborty Pages: 88 Year of Publication: 2025 Price: ₹350 ISBN: 978-81-985733-1-5 (9788198573315) About the Author Born in Ranchi on 29 January 1974, Mandira Mitra Chakraborty, as early as she can remember, wanted to be an astronaut. Ensconced in a family of wannabe poets whose unsold books lay in heaps in cupboards like wounded soldiers, the least she could have done is fly from poetry. Instead, this is her second volume of poems, following her debut collection, Six Ways […]

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The Enigma of the Voyage

Author: Ritwik Ghosh Pages: 94 Year of Publication: 2025 Price: ₹400 ISBN: 978-81-985733-3-9 (9788198573339) About the Author Ritwik Ghosh was born in India. He was educated in India and the United States and is now engaged in higher studies in literature. He composes music in the Western classical tradition. This is his fourth book of poetry with Writers Workshop, India, following The Lamp through the Forest, The Art of the Ode and The Democracy of Dreams. Teaser 1 The runner by the sea […]

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Singing to the Eumenides

Author: Tansy Troy Pages: 94 Year of Publication: 2025 Price: ₹400 ISBN: 978-81-985733-2-2 (9788198573322) About the Author Tansy Troy is an India-based poet, educator, performer and artist who grew up in the heart of Covent Garden before travelling to Greece, Morocco, Wales, Japan and the Himalayas, stopping off en route to complete her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in English Literature at King’s College, Cambridge. Since then, Tansy’s creative quest has led her to schools, galleries, theatres and concert halls across England and Wales, […]

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Daud Haider ~ 21 February 1952 – 26 April 2025

Born in the district of Pabna (then East Pakistan), Daud Haider completed his college education from Dhaka and Kolkata, graduating from Jadavpur University. He was actively involved in the Bangladesh Liberation War of 1971 and started writing poems, plays and essays prolifically from his late teens and early twenties. He was the literary editor of Dainik Sambad in Dhaka and was forced to leave Bangladesh in 1974 after being imprisoned the year before for writing a poem that was perceived […]

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Nothingness ~ Love Poems

Author: Bharat Luthra Pages: 94 Year of Publication: 2025 Price: ₹400 ISBN: 978-81-985733-6-0 (9788198573360) About the Author Bharat Luthra is a thinker, animalist, environmentalist, poet and writer. He runs a foundation dedicated to climate-change awareness, advocacy, afforestation and reforestation. Bharat believes that the purpose of human civilization is to grow as old as possible, which can only be attained by pursuing unity, collective righteousness and individual righteousness. You can follow his blog here. About the Book Nothingness is a collection of epistolary love poems […]

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Sritama Sen’s ‘There Used to Be a Lake Here Once’ declared runner-up at Muse India Young Writer Awards 2024

We are happy to share that Sritama Sen’s There Used to Be a Lake Here Once has been adjudged runner-up in the Ambika Ananth Award for Poetry category of this year’s Muse India Young Writer Awards. The judges’ citation described their book as ‘at once exceptional, impactful, and rich in poetry’. Says Sritama: “I am immensely grateful for this recognition, as it provides greater visibility to independently published queer and trans literature in India. I think this nomination really gave me […]

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The Square Root of a Sonnet

Author: Nilanjan P. Choudhury Pages: 76 Year of Publication: 2017, Special Reprint 2024 Price: ₹300 / £10 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 […]

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There Used to Be a Lake Here Once

Author: Sritama Sen Pages: 76 Year of Publication: 2024 Price: Rs 300 ISBN: 978-81-968192-9-3 (9788196819293) About the Author Sritama Sen (she/they) is a queer poet, essayist and writer. Growing up in West Bengal, she completed her BA and MA in English at Jadavpur University, Kolkata, and has had her poetry and stories published in various literary zines. Their work explores themes of girlhood, trans identity and queerness in a Bengali context, without being restricted by literary genre conventions. This is […]

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Orisons in the Dark

Author: Pallavi Padma-Uday Pages: 68 Year of Publication: 2023 Price: Rs 300 / £10 ISBN: 978-81-961291-1-8 (9788196129118) About the Author Pallavi grew up all over India and studied in Chennai and London before moving to Belfast. She started off as a reporter and a long-form writer for newspapers including Mint and The Indian Express in Mumbai and New Delhi. In recent years, she helped build some of India’s fastest-growing e-commerce startups as part of their core leadership teams and continues to mentor […]

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Woman at the Traffic Signal

Author: Ghazala Shamim Siddiqi Pages: 106 Year of Publication: 2023 Price: Rs 400 ISBN: 978-81-961291-0-1 (9788196129101) About the Author Ghazala Siddiqi has a Ph. D. in Education and has contributed to materials development, content writing and reviewing at various organizations such as the National Council of Educational Research and Training, Cambridge University Press and Burlington Publications. She teaches English at Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi. She is an English language expert in the Access Micro Scholarship Teaching Program offered by […]

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