those little things: haiku

Literature & Fiction

Nair, Manoj

Poetry

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Bahujan: The Awakening

Limbale, Sharankumar

Genre Fiction

Revenge Theory: a novel

Sharma, Onkar

Ankit has quiet humor. His lines flirt with the mirthful, but behind his jocular moorings lies a mind searching for soothers. His poetic gaze permeates the textures of his milieu: this ensues fine observations. — SANJEEV SETHI (Recipient of the Ethos Literary Award 2022) Ankit Raj Ojha is an assistant professor of English with the Department of Higher Education, Haryana, and is a Ph.D. candidate at IIT Roorkee. His poems appear in the US and UK-based magazines, and he has research articles in Routledge and Johns Hopkins University Press journals. Ankit has formerly been a software engineer at Infosys and has performed as a vocalist with his bands in Delhi NCR, Mysore and Bhubaneswar. He hails from Chapra, Bihar. Twitter: @ankit_raj01

Pinpricks: poems

Ojha, Ankit Raj

I have passed through this surgery a number of times. Mostly it has been skin-deep only. This is the first time it’s an open-heart surgery — and Shailja is the Surgeon. She has touched deep down at the core of my poems. Most books about my works have not gone beyond the film lyrics or some popular ghazals — considering the popular choice of the people. But Shailja has gone beyond that and touched the soul. That’s why I wrote to her once, “Your work is the best work on my works, so far!” I still stand by that statement. — GULZAR The Moonsmith Gulzar revolves around Gulzar’s writings on some of the most significant themes of existence. It's a tribute to the way he writes about the intricacies of inner lives, the inextricable connection with nature, and the obscure dimensions of our existence. Shailja Chandra unravels how Gulzar awakens us to the majesty of the mundane that we commonly neglect. Chandra explores the profound depths of Gulzar’s voice on each subject — to distill the essence where his signature poignancy, conscientiousness, or sagacity springs from.

The Moonsmith Gulzar: orbiting the celebrated words

Chandra, Shailja

History & Criticism

Love is complex. It demands sacrifice and vows to fill our hearts but at the cost of something as dear as love. Love is inarticulate, liberating, hurting, healing — it’s an ordeal to be trapped in love. Yet, these stories by Annapurna Sharma are stringed by the one thread called love. The characters imbue love at various levels. They are quirky, filled with a sense of alienation, but at the same time packed with attachment and different shades of love.

When Jaya met Jaggu: and other stories

Sharma, Annapurna

Literary

Here is a book where a love of language doesn’t turn into mere technique, where craft doesn’t degenerate into mere cleverness, where self-awareness doesn’t slide into mere self-consciousness. Nikita Parik’s poems map cities and bodies, journeying past exoskeleton to hushed interior, leaving a welter of poignant images in their wake—an itr-seller ‘with old eyes’, a mouth that is ‘an Indian balcony during the months of saawan and bhaado’, a city that becomes ‘a stinking hilsa’ in a passenger’s tote bag. Warmly intelligent and tenderly alive, this is a book that holds many ‘promises’—and not just in the ‘future tense’. — Arundhathi Subramaniam Nikita Parik holds a Master's in Linguistics, a three-year diploma in French, and another Master’s in English. Diacritics of Desire (2019) is her debut book of poems, followed by Amour and Apocalypse (2020), a novel in translation. Published in India and overseas, she is the recipient of the Mukti Bose Memorial IPPL Young Poet Award 2022 and one of the Nissim Excellence in Writing Award 2020. Nikita currently edits the EKL Review.

My City is a Murder of Crows: poems

Parik, Nikita

The Vanquished Queen: the Diary of Kaikeyi

Mehta, Ramkishore

For a Drop of Rice-Water is a telling commentary on the Bengal Famine and ensuing food riots amidst a country torn by its struggle for independence. Set in the backdrop of the Second World War, the narrative that begins as a take on sexual violence slowly turns into the survivor owning herself, her identity, and throwing herself headlong into the freedom struggle. Having lost everything to the flood, famine, communal violence, police brutality, and patriarchal society, this is the story of a family’s desperate attempts at survival. As a brothel becomes home to one sister, two other siblings pursue their revolutionary fervor. Following each of these characters, the narrative depicts difficult decisions and harsh reality moments. Multiple plots merge into a complete whole, and individual personalities are left with no time to grieve their losses. This novel sketches a parallel to present times. Even now, India is marred by poverty, hunger, and illiteracy. Yet, citizens protest against newly introduced parliamentary bills, injustices, and communal hate—much like the pre-Independence era that inspires this novel.

For A Drop Of Rice-Water: novel

Dhar, Srirupa

Loveflakes: Memories of Mirages

Malhotra, Vibha

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