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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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Sritama Sen’s ‘There Used to Be a Lake Here Once’ declared runner-up at Muse India Young Writer Awards 2024

We are happy to share that Sritama Sen’s There Used to Be a Lake Here Once has been adjudged runner-up in the Ambika Ananth Award for Poetry category of this year’s Muse India Young Writer Awards. The judges’ citation described their book as ‘at once exceptional, impactful, and rich in poetry’. Says Sritama: “I am immensely grateful for this recognition, as it provides greater visibility to independently published queer and trans literature in India. I think this nomination really gave me […]

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Books, Poetry, Redbird

Quo Vida

Author: Dilip Menon Pages: 80 Year of Publication: 2025 Price: ₹300/ $10 ISBN: 978-81-9785733-4-6 (97881978573346) About the Author Dilip M. Menon is a cultural historian of South Asia and is currently a Professor of History and International Relations at the University of Witwatersrand. He has written on literature and film, and his primary work deals with knowledge from the global South and oceanic histories. His recent books include the edited volumes Cinemas of the Global South: Towards a Southern Aesthetics […]

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Books, Poetry, Redbird

Hope in the Season of No Flowers

Author: Satish Kumar Sharma Pages: 100 Year of Publication: 2025 Price: ₹400 ISBN: 978-81-979136-5-5 (9788197913655) About the Author Satish Kumar Sharma was born in Rajasthan in 1959. A post-graduate in commerce and graduate in law, he was an officer in the State Bank of India three years before joining the Indian Police Service in 1986. He served in the Gujarat cadre, rose to the rank of Director General, and retired in 2019. A freelance writer under the name Satish K. […]