Nizarudeen reworks Langston Hughes’ ‘The Negro Speaks of Rivers’, replacing Hughes’ historical subject with the Moplah, a term deeply entangled with the colonial history of Malabar Muslims.
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Kashmiriyat takes on the most convincing meaning. Instead of an idea, acts of care are offered along with actions such as feeding someone, opening a door, composing a family, and sharing a table.
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An unusual, unconventional book... It is slow-paced and dreamlike on the surface, but beneath that stillness, there is a constant sense of unease.
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Adventures set in places of wilderness and inspired by real events are the nuts and bolts that signalize children’s author Jess Butterworth.
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The poems shift from the familiar and recognisable to the unfamiliar and uncongenial in just a few words, and just as easily back again. It is Gangopadhyay’s metier.



