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Even Birds Go Home

Author: Purabi Bhattacharya Pages: 128 Year of Publication: 2023 Price: Rs 500 ISBN: 978-81-961291-7-0 (9788196129170) About the Author Purabi Bhattacharya writes from the granular ground of Gujarat, guardianed by the prickly cacti and hot air, pining for the rains, the pine fragrance and the undulant Khasi hills of Shillong where she was born. The serenity, simplicity and serendipity of the serpentine alleys that saw her growing up seeped into the very core of her being. So much so, even two […]

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Endless Love

Author: Nileen Putatunda Pages: 68 Year of Publication: 2023 Price: Rs 300 ISBN: 978-81-961291-9-4 (9788196129194) About the Author Nileen Putatunda was born in 1978. He went to St Mary’s School (ISC), Bombay, and St James’ School, Calcutta, graduating from St Stephen’s College, Delhi, in 2000. He has worked in social development. Before this, eleven books of his spiritual poetry were published by Writers Workshop. Nileen’s poem books have been reviewed in Prabuddha Bharata, The Vedanta Kesari, Samvit, The Advent, The Journal of […]

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Graffiti of Dreams

Author: Mohammad Zahid Pages: 80 Year of Publication: 2023 Price: Rs 300 ISBN: 978-81-961291-8-7 (9788196129187) About the Author Mohammad Zahid is an award winning poet and translator from Kashmir, India. His poetry has appeared in many Indian and international journals. He is a translation editor for Kashmiri at Muse India and Lakeview International Journal of Literature and Arts. He has translated few major works of Kashmiri Literature published by the Academy of Art Culture & Languages, Jammu & Kashmir and Sahitya […]

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The Mahābhārata of Vyāsa ~ Book XIII The Anuśāsana Parva

Translator: Pradip Bhattacharya Pages: 1256 Year of Publication: 2023 Price: Rs 3000 ISBN: 978-81-961291-3-2 (9788196129132) About the Book In 1968, Prof. P. Lal began his sloka-by-sloka English transcreation of the full Mahābhārata. After his passing in 2010, his student Pradip Bhattacharya took up the Parvas left unfinished. The last volume, the Anuśāsana Parva, has come out in October. It completes the 18-volume set, which has two distinguishing features: it is the only English translation that incorporates all the variations in Sanskrit editions, including […]

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Literary Hub on Writers Workshop

Happy to share Liesl Shwabe’s wonderful article on the legacy of Writers Workshop here. We would love to hear your thoughts! (Photo credit: Aritra Das, Wikimedia Commons)

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Jayanta Mahapatra (1928-2023)

We are saddened by the demise of the acclaimed Jayanta Mahapatra on August 27. He was the first poet to win the Sahitya Akademi award in English (1981). His contributions to Indian literature were also recognized with the Padma Shri (2009), though he felt compelled to return it in 2015 to protest “rising intolerance in India”. Born to Christian parents in Cuttack, Odisha, Mahapatra authored many books, including 27 collections of poetry–seven in Odia and the rest in English, now […]

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The Morning Twilight

Author: Chandni Kapur Pages: 64 Year of Publication: 2023 Price: Rs 250 ISBN: 978-81-961291-5-6 (9788196129156) About the Author Chandni Kapur is the author of nine books, Reflections (1992), Lurking Shadows (1997), Embers, Ash & Dust (1999), Karma (2001), The Looking Glass (2004), The Other Face (2009), Timeless Interludes (2013), Of Nooks and Cloisters (2019), and A White Rainbow (2021). An MBA and a Certified Executive and Life Coach with more than two decades of experience across diverse geographies, she currently lives […]

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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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‘When the Flowers Begin to Speak’ Wins WE Award

We are pleased to announce that Sonali Pattnaik’s book, When the Flowers Begin to Speak, published in 2021 by Writers Workshop, has received the inaugural WE Illumination Award 2023 and WE Scrolls of Honour 2023, jointly conferred by the WE Literary community. Congratulations, Ms Pattnaik!

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Sound of Sugar

Author: Gauri Gharpure Pages: 64 Year of Publication: 2023 Price: Rs 250 ISBN: 978-81-961291-4-9 (9788196129149) About the Author Gauri Gharpure grew up in Ahmedabad in a bi-cultural household and her Gujarati roots often overshadow her Maharashtrian genes. She studied journalism at Columbia University, New York, on a Fulbright grant. Her first collection of poems, Everything in Between, was published by Writers Workshop in 2020. Teaser How would it have been? How would it have been had you seen the other part […]

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