Nisarg Patel — Excerpt: Recently announced as the winner of the 2024 Sahitya Akademi Award under the category of English Literature, Easterine Kire’s Spirit Nights (2022) tells a “story of darkness [as] narrated by the Chang Tribe” of Nagaland.
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Fishing without a Bicycle in a Changing Country — Prabal Kumar Basu’s A Fish without a Bicycle
Amlanjyoti Goswami — Excerpt: Prabal Kumar Basu’s book of poetry is a book of whimsical fancy, where surreal realities intersperse with romantic yearning.
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Books in the Time of War — V.V. Ganeshananthan’s Brotherless Night
Asha Krishna — Excerpt: The book opens with an intriguing prologue with a New York dateline. “I recently sent a letter to a terrorist I used to know.”
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Heart-touching and resplendent haiku — Daipayan Nair’s the ten hands of a fuchka seller
Anita Nahal — Excerpt: As Santōka Taneda, Japanese author and haiku poet, expressed quite rightly, “Haiku is not a shriek, a howl, a sigh, or a yawn; rather, it is the deep breath of life.”
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Riverine Verses — Lakshmi Kannan’s Nadistuti
Neera Kashyap — Excerpt: Divided into five segments, Nadistuti is an interconnected riverine flow of poems that reflect each other in a brilliant kaleidoscope of mirrors.