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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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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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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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.
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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.
