Three women, one real as far as history is concerned and the other two drawn from the pages of Tagore, inspired by that real woman—the notun bouthan who was Tagore’s muse and who died tragically.
K Ramesh offers a kaleidoscopic view of the beauty nestling in the ordinary and commonplace, of movement in stillness and of the macrocosm in the microcosm.
It is character-driven humanity that McKenzie-Murray captures. The broken beauty of a falling feather or an unsent letter. The loneliness of a suburban laundromat.
Mani Mahesh Aurora beautifully explains environmental terminology with excerpts from Iya’s diary and her father’s blog, which makes the read engaging and not preachy.
Mitra Samal’s collection reads like a paradox coming alive… to trace a bond, a link across conflicting emotions, to discover a connection between opposites, a pattern in shambles, and a poise in disbalance.