Rohit Karir — Excerpt: My heart skips a beat when a paragraph grabs hold of me, and the search ends.
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Under the Same Moon: Seeing Ourselves in Vibha Batra’s Spotless
Wani Nazir — Excerpt: Spotless isn’t about pain. It’s a coming-of-age story, a journal, and a cosmic poem all at once. The narrator’s voice is sharp, self-aware, and funny when you least expect it. You can taste it and feel the muck.
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Echoes of Memory, Nature and Rebirth in Santosh Bakaya’s At Thirty Minutes Past One
Wani Nazir — Excerpt: Santosh Bakaya’s poetic mini-epic is an evocation of the dreamscape bathed in lost garden scents and memory whorls, and the rhythms of a haunted, healing world.
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Farrukh Dhondy’s Rumi: Bridging Mysticism, Music, and Modernity
Wani Nazir — Excerpt: They are a musical, rhythmic, and symbolic world, and every metaphor has a spiritual, cultural, and cosmic meaning. Translating Rumi might either dampen the original’s exuberant essence or sever its strong ties to Persian and Sufi culture.
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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.