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Selected Assamese Poetry Volume II

Translator: Surajit Borooah Pages: 152 Year of Publication: 2018 Price: Rs 400 ISBN: 978-93-5045-183-0 (9789350451830) About the Translator Born in 1945, Surajit Borooah, besides being a sportsperson of eminence in the 1960s and 1970s, was a well-known broadcaster of All India Radio and Doordarshan. He retired as a Professor of English from Arya Vidyapeeth College in 2006. He was the president of North East India Forum for English Studies and the vice-president of North East Writers’ Forum. He is an avid photographer and was […]

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By the Brahmaputra and Other Poems

Author: Srutimala Duara Pages: 72 Year of Publication: 2018 Price: Rs 200 ISBN: 978-93-5045-184-7 (9789350451847) About the Author Srutimala Duara is a writer, an academician and a media person. Her books in English include three novels, three collections of short stories, two books of poems, and a book on the city of Guwahati. Her books in Assamese include six story books for young children, a collection of short stories and two novels. She was a columnist writing under the heading “Chitra Bichitra” in the […]

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Beyond Words

Author: Parneet Jaggi  Pages: 60 Year of Publication: 2018 Price: Rs 200 ISBN: 978-93-5045-181-6 (9789350451816) About the Author Parneet Jaggi is a lecturer in English in Sri Ganganagar, Rajasthan. Her first collection of poems, Euphonies of Heart and Soul, was published by Cyberwit, Allahabad, in 2013. Her second collection, Live Love Light, was published by Writers Workshop, India, in 2014. 25 of her poems were included in the anthology of contemporary English poets, Wordwine, launched by Delhi Poetree in 2015. Her third collection, Show Me How Not […]

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Pen at the Pollen

Author: Diganta Ray Pages: 76 Year of Publication: 2017 Price: Rs 150 ISBN: 978-93-5045-160-1 (9789350451601) About the Author: Diganta Ray is an MA student in the Department of English at Jadavpur University, Kolkata. He has published two earlier collections of poems, titled Stolen Sights and Ant-Eggs in Honey-Hive Shade, both published by Salesian College Publication in 2014 and 2015 respectively. Born and brought up in Siliguri, West Bengal, he aspires to be a poet by profession. Teaser: Glass That Measures Grief A glass breaks; And for […]

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Surajit Borooah’s Translated Poems Adjudged Joint Runners-Up at the Muse India Translation Awards, 2017

We are happy to announce that Surajit Borooah’s Selected Assamese Poetry has been judged Joint Runners-Up at the Muse India – Satish Verma Translation Awards 2017 for poetry, along with Seth Michelson’s translation of Rati Saxena’s Scripted in the Streams (Poetrywala, 2017). Selected Assamese Poetry was brought out by Writers Workshop, India, in 2015. “Both these volumes share the Runners-Up prize as much for the quality of selection of poems as for the quality of translation. The easy readability of these poems […]

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Songs of Sanity

Author: Adwaita Das Pages: 76 Year of Publication: 2017 Price: Rs 150 ISBN: 978-93-5045-153-3 (9789350451533) About the Author: Adwaita Das was born in 1984 in Calcutta. She graduated in English from Jadavpur University, Calcutta, and went on to obtain a post graduate diploma in Film Direction from Film and Television Institute of India (FTII), Pune. While in college, she started a theatre group called Stage-Addict which mainly performed original plays in English. She won the Shyamanand Jalan National Youth Theatre Award in 2013 for her […]

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Menaka and other ballets

Author: Vasanth Kannabiran Pages: 100 Year of Publication: 2016 Price: Rs 250 ISBN: 978-93-5045-138-0 (9789350451380) About the Author: Vasanth Kannabiran graduated in English Literature from Presidency College, Madras, and she taught English to undergraduates for twenty years. She has been an active member of the women’s movement in India for the last three decades, speaking and writing about women’s concerns, and has played a significant role in introducing feminist issues to Telangana and Andhra Pradesh. Kannabiran has been a consultant for […]

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A Worm’s Verse

Author: Arunodaya Chaudhuri Pages: 112 Year of Publication: 2016 Price: Rs 200 ISBN: 978-93-5045-128-1 (9789350451281) About the Author: Arunodaya Chaudhuri was born in Barrackpore, West Bengal, in 1949. He spent the best part of his childhood in Hazaribagh, Bihar, studying in St. Xavier’s School there. He graduated from St. Xavier’s College, Calcutta, and completed his MA from the University of Calcutta. He is an advertising professional and has written extensively on advertising and related subjects. His books include Indian Advertising: Laughter and Tears (Niyogi Books), Indian Advertising 1780 to […]

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The Birds Fly in Silence and other poems

Author: Madhu Kailas Pages: 108 Year of Publication: 2015 Price: Rs 250 ISBN: 978-93-5045-126-7 (9789350451267) About the Author: Madhu Kailas is the pen name of Kingshuk Basu. He grew up in Kolkata and has lived, studied and worked in various places in India and the USA. He is an avid lover and writer of poetry. He lives now in Kolkata with his wife and two children. Teaser: I wake up I wake up in ravaged gardens strewn with bruised petals. Crippled wings […]

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