Wani Nazir — Excerpt: The main character, Maya, is not shown as a static person, but as a fluid being—a figure who is always being written, rewritten, and redefined. She is the postmodern subject, lost in a world of lies and shallow things.
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Three Decades in Verse — A Review of Anju Makhija’s Changing, Unchanging: New Selected Poems (1995-2023)
Sutanuka Ghosh Roy — Excerpt: Changing, Unchanging invites the readers to respond to the older and newer poems of the poet, the storytelling on life, and delves deep into the disturbing possibilities at the intersection of the two.
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Unmaking and Remaking the Self: Reading Meena Kandasamy’s Exquisite Cadavers
Wani Nazir — Excerpt: Exquisite Cadavers is good because it doesn’t try to be perfect. It is like works that don’t fit in a box.
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A Poetic Search for Belongingness: Review of Siddhartha Menon’s Lone Pine
Tabish Nawaz — Excerpt: The poems in the collection carve a path that leads us deep inside, searching within us a proverbial shelter. The presence of external, often teeming with natural elements, creates an opportunity for questioning our place in the space.
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The Poetic Performance of Fracture: A Review of Yashodhara Raychaudhuri’s The Poem, In Pieces
Basudhara Roy — Excerpt: A poem is read as much by the ear as by the eye. It establishes a relationship with the reader as much by defying as by conforming to poetic norms. Raychaudhuri’s poems stimulate both vision and sound.