Shikha Sawhney Lamba has assembled dozens of poems and artworks by 25 Afghan women and girls into a volume that shouts with defiance, mourns deeply, and burns with the necessity to endure.
Rahul Singh — Excerpt: Why are these accounts important? Because most of what we get to read about this region concerns geopolitics and hence, is hardly human. What they lack is the nuance of lives lived by the most repressed section of the society.
Z. M. Asafzah — Excerpt: The story is a retelling of the “love story” of Orpheus and Eurydice, but entwines the Greek gods Hades and Persephone and their “love” story into its lore.
Gabby Woehr — Excerpt: Bee Movie’s most important takeaway can be debated at length, as the movie speaks to class divides, work culture, and environmentalism, among other issues.
Anita Nahal — Excerpt: As Santōka Taneda, Japanese author and haiku poet, expressed quite rightly, “Haiku is not a shriek, a howl, a sigh, or a yawn; rather, it is the deep breath of life.”
