Author: Amreeta Syam Pages: 142 Year of Publication: 1992 Price: Rs 120 ISBN: 81-7189-327-9 (8171893279) About the Book In her preface to the book, Syam writes: “Kaikeyi. The vamp of the Ramayana. The wicked in contrast to the two good queens – Kaushalya and Sumitra. But so interesting. Not totally black nor fully white but a character in shades of grey. So human. Not perfect. A warm-hearted, complex woman. Kaikeyi is a work of imagination. It is not based on historical […]
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Author: Lakshmi Priya N. Pages: 90 Year of Publication: 2021 Price: Rs 300 ISBN: 978-81-953583-2-8 (9788195358328) About the Author Lakshmi Priya N. (born 1978) works as an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Kerala, Thiruvananthapuram. Her poems have appeared in two anthologies, The Dance of the Peacock: An Anthology of English Poetry from India and Suvarnarekha: An Anthology of Indian Women Poets Writing in English, and in other online and print journals like Indian Literature, Good ole Poetry Chain […]
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Author: Suhasini Soumitra Barman Pages: 44 Year of Publication: 2021 Price: Rs 200 ISBN: 978-81-953583-3-5 (9788195358335) About the Author Suhasini runs a communication agency by day and is a bookworm by night. She takes refuge in writing and poetry. She was raised by strong women and compassionate men and that has shaped her identity. About the Book 50 love poems; here is a teaser: Making a call (Dastāk) There’s spring on her feet, her cheeks stained pink, sparkling like early rays […]
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Author: Joyce Job Pages: 100 Year of Publication: 2021 Price: Rs 300 ISBN: 978-81-949985-1-8 (9788194998518) About the Author Joyce Job is a former I.T. professional hailing from Kerala. She writes online under her pen name Lirio Marchito, which means “Wilted Lily” in Spanish, a tribute to Pablo Neruda. It was after reading his poem “Tonight I can write the saddest lines”, during her college days, that she started writing poetry regularly. She writes mainly poems, short stories, book reviews and blogs, in […]
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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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Author: Aishee Ghoshal Pages: 80 Year of Publication: 2021 Price: Rs 250 ISBN: 978-81-949985-0-1 (9788194998501) About the Author Aishee has a tea for every mood. Lavender green tea for homesickness, strawberry white tea for joy and chamomile for sorrow. Her only long-term goal is to spend a year in Paris. In the balcony of a tiny apartment overlooking a busy street or in tiny Parisian cafés, writing a book someone will discover and publish posthumously. She is marginally obsessed with cats […]
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Author: Debarun Sarkar Pages: 68 Year of Publication: 2021 Price: Rs 200 ISBN: 978-81-949985-7-0 (9788194998570) About the Author Debarun Sarkar sleeps, reads, eats, drinks, smokes, labours, occasionally (ghost)writes and submits. He has spent a considerable amount of time living in Surat, Calcutta, New Town, Hyderabad, Bombay and is currently halting at Bangalore. Teaser Gentrified Neighbourhoods Landscapes gentrified out of hamlets with sky-reaching habitable structures are always surrounded by huge roads and are almost always bereft of trees. The dryness of the street dries […]
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Author: Tapas Bandopadhyay Pages: 68 Year of Publication: 2021 Price: Rs 200 ISBN: 978-81-949985-6-3 (9788194998563) About the Author Tapas grew up in various railway towns in eastern India and in a Calcutta torn by political strife in the early 1970s. He graduated in Mining Engineering from the Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University (now IIT, BHU) and spent his youth working in the coal mines of what is now Jharkhand. His poems have been published in the “8th Day” supplement of […]
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Author: Alka Singh Pages: 52 Year of Publication: 2021 Price: Rs 150 ISBN: 978-81-949985-9-4 (9788194998594) About the Author An academician, poet and essayist for the cause of women, culture, art and literature, Dr Alka Singh is an Assistant Professor of English at Dr Ram Manohar Lohiya National Law University, Lucknow, with seven awards to her credit. She has been a Visiting Scholar to Maison des Sciences de l’Homme, Paris, under the Indo-French Programme of Cooperation in Social Sciences. Her areas […]
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Editors: Meera Chakravorty, Geraldine Sinyuy Pages: 60 Year of Publication: 2020 Price: Rs 200 / £10 ISBN: 978-81-949985-4-9 (9788194998549) About the Editors Meera Chakravorty is a research faculty member in the Department of Cultural Studies, Jain University, Bengaluru, India. She has translated into Kannada Bengali novels that won Sahitya Akademi (National Academy of Letters) awards, like Manoj Basu’s Nishikutumba and Amiyabhushan Majumdar’s Rajnagar, as well as a collection of Jibanananda Das’s poetry and Saonli Mitra’s play Nathavati Anathavat. She translated into […]
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