Tag: 2025

A sample cover of the book: ochre coloured handloom sari with gold embossed nameplate and lettering for the title and author's name. The border of the sari lines the right hand margin of the cover.
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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Photo of Prantik Banerjee wearing a yellow kurta with black embroidery in a vertical design going down from the collar. Banerjee is looking to his right and has a broad smile. The photo is taken outdoors but the setting isn't clear.
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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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Books, Poetry, Redbird

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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Books, Poetry, Redbird

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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