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.
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.
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.
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.
Albert Abdul-Barr Wang — Excerpt: The cover photograph taken by the author herself provides a clue to the range of themes: self-portraiture, literary craft, formalism, the female body, whiteness in relation to post-feminist America, and natural landscapes versus constructed interiors.