“Manan Kapoor’s immersive study returns the poet to his roots, which are inescapably Indian-there’s no other word for the syncretic mastery of the Hindi, Urdu and English traditions that shaped his work.”-Jeet Thayil
From fast-vanishing Irani restaurants pervaded by ‘the semolina sigh’ of mawa cakes to songs ‘dipped in the nasha of aged Shiraz’, these poems reach for an elsewhereness, and still wash up against the shores of some simple truths: ‘that some things are best left on windowsills’, for instance, or that ‘everything’s precious, until it’s airmailed away’. — Arundhathi Subramaniam These…
'Sudeep Sen's Anthropocene is an impassioned and heartfelt response to the intersecting planetary crises of our time. It is of the utmost importance that more voices from the global South bear witness to the mutliple catastrophe that are now unfolding around us.' - AMITAV GHOSH
Exquisite Cadavers' experiment delivers a book that is slyly funny and profoundly thoughtful. It is common for critics and readers to belittle women by assuming they write out of catharsis rather than to create. Exquisite Cadavers is not just a fierce rebuttal. It's a work of brilliance. ― Financial Times An inventive fusion of fact and fiction. ― Observer Fascinating... The cleverness of Kandasamy's bricolage is that…
