Tag: 2025

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Books, Poetry, Redbird

Discerner of Words

Author: Daiarisa Rumnong Pages: 114 Year of Publication: 2025 Price: ₹400 ISBN: 978-81-985733-7-7 (9788198573377) About the Author Dr Daiarisa Rumnong is Assistant Professor in the Department of English at St. Mary’s College, Shillong, Meghalaya. She believes that poetry holds truth and power. She is humbled by the wisdom of words, imagery, metaphors and all that language can encompass. Daiarisa sees poetry as a sacred gift which is to be experienced with the eyes of the soul, and not to be trifled […]

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Books, Poetry, Saffronbird, transcreated from Malayalam, Transcreated from Modern Indian Languages, Transcreation

Pattinathār

Author: P. Ravikumar Translator: M. Dakshinamurthy Pages: 86 Year of Publication: 2025 Price: Rs 350 ISBN: 978-81-985733-9-1 (9788198573391) About the Author Born in October 1952, P. Ravikumar has written three long poems in Malayalam and many articles on music and literature. His first poem, M. D. Rāmanāthan, appeared in 2004, his second, Nachiketas, in 2009, and his third, Pattināthar, in 2024. M. D. Rāmanāthan has been translated into Hindi, English (both in 2014) and Tamil (2019). Nachiketas has been translated into English […]

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Books, Poetry, Redbird

And How We’ve Been

Author: Sahana Mukherjee Pages: 62 Year of Publication: 2025 Price: ₹250 ISBN: 978-81-985733-8-4 (9788198573384) About the Author Sahana Mukherjee is from Kolkata, and pursuing doctoral research in the UK. She has been writing poetry for a decade now, and her poems have appeared in several literary magazines, journals and anthologies. This is her second volume with Writers Workshop, India, after August Ache  (2019). Teaser Mother like Autumn I wonder what my mother does Without me – How she draws water from […]

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Books, Greybird, Memoir, Reference

Kotia to Ketaki: At Home Away from Home

Authors: Ketaki Sarkar and Chandana Dey Pages: 186 Year of Publication: 2025 Price: ₹800 / $20 (USD) ISBN: 978-81-985733-0-8 (9788198573308) About the Authors Russian by birth, Ketaki Sarkar (1907-98) met and married Nitai Sarkar (1905-61) in Switzerland, following which both came to India in 1934. Ketaki taught French at the Alliance Française and Ramakrishna Mission in Calcutta, worked in the Government School (now College) of Art and made products for the Bengal Home Industries emporium. Chandana Dey, granddaughter of Ketaki, was […]

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Prantik Banerjee awarded first prize in the Wingword Poetry Competition, 2025

We are happy to share that Prantik Banerjee has won the first prize in the Wingword Poetry Competition, 2025, for his poem, “Stand Alone”, published in Crossing the Line (Writers Workshop, 2022). Banerjee’s first book of poems, A Postscript on Missing Keys, was also brought out by us. This should work as an incentive for you to order a copy of Crossing the Line!

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Books, Poetry, Redbird

Kaleidoscope

Author: Kadavakollu Tejaswani Pages: 82 Year of Publication: 2025 Price: ₹300 ISBN: 978-81-985733-5-3 (9788198573353) About the Author Kadavakollu Tejaswani works as an Associate Professor of English in the Department of English, GITAM (Deemed to be University), Hyderabad. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Hyderabad and has published several research articles in national and international journals and presented papers at various conferences. She is a trilingual poet and has published six volumes of poetry: two in English, Autumn Leaves and A Forgotten […]

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Books, Poetry, Redbird

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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Books, Poetry, Redbird

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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