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Witnesses of Remembrance
A new selection of far-reaching poems from an outstanding literary doyen of our times. Kunwar Narain is widely regarded as one of India’s finest contemporary poets and thinkers, with a universal appeal. Awarded with the Jnanpith, his work bears witness to how the lived and the written coalesce. His poems say more than their words—taking us into and out of the morass of our bizarre worlds, signalling inner disquiets in their solicitudes, waking us up to hope in the interstices between lines, and creating entire worldviews in their collectivity. This is the first book-length translation of the author’s poetry to appear after his passing away in 2017. It has an eclectic, wide-ranging sele...
Nayi Kavita
In 1943 a slim volume of poetry, Tar Saptak, burst onto the Hindi literary scene. It gave voice to seven young poets who were determined to experiment both with the content and form of poetry. Tar Saptak heralded the beginning of Prayogvad (Experimentalism), which in turn became Nayi Kavita (New Poetry). Taken from Nayi Kavita, this parallel text anthology interprets it not as a narrow literary movement but as a modernist tendency still flourishing in Hindi poetry. The collection includes seven poets who first published in one of the Saptaks: Agyeya Muktibodh, Shamsher, Raghuvir Sahay, Sarveshwar Dayal Saxena, Kunwar Narain and Kedarnath Singh. This volume also significantly revises the literary map of modern Hindi poetry, demonstrating that, contrary to established opinion, the 1960s and 1970s produced gifted women poets such as Shakunt Mathur, Amrita Bharati and Jyotsna Milan, all of whose work is represented here.
The Other World
If a door only opened one way, would you enter?Stage 4 thyroid cancer was supposed to be a death sentence for 18-year-old Elianna Foster, but she's been given "the key."The antique golden key is anything but ordinary. It grants her passage to a magical fae world where she can survive the fatal disease? If she uses it before her time runs out.A chance at survival is tempting, but nothing in life is free. Crossing the portal would cure her disease, but first, she'd have to turn her back on her family and friends-on everyone she's ever loved. The moment she crosses the threshold into the other world, there is no turning back. The door only goes one way.Being unable to return to the human realm isn't the only reason Elianna is afraid to use the enchanted key. She doesn't know what exists on the other side of the portal. No one does.What fate awaits Elianna in the other world? In a land lacking enough females, will she be wed to a fae male, given a mate and a partner? Or will she be enslaved and forced to reproduce for others in order to boost the fae population?
No Other World
Kunwar Narain is a pre-eminent poet, and a major senior literary figure today. His work has spanned the last five decades, continuously evolving and expanding its own boundaries. It is a remarkable body of work, marked by a rare purity and profundity. The poems embody a unique simultaneity of the simple and the layered, entailing a patient uncovering of resonances, lived equally in poetry and in life. A complex interplay of metaphysical imagination, playful irony and tentative sentiment markes the basic temper of his poetry, which lodges itself in an all encompassing reality and then tests it as only the most honest literature can. In these poems, surprises are located not so much in artifices of form or name as in the primal energies of life and love themselves.
Nayi Kavita
A book that showcases experimentalism in modern Hindi poetry.
Writer, Rebel, Soldier, Lover
"An outstanding literary biography" AMITAV GHOSH "Mukul writes beautifully, and brings to life a man who has often been misunderstood" BENJAMIN MOSER "This book is a remarkable contribution to the world of Indian letters: ANNIE ZAIDI Sachchidanand Hirananda Vatsyayan 'Agyeya' is unarguably one of the most remarkable figures of Indian literature. From his revolutionary youth to acquiring the mantle of a (highly controversial) patron saint of Hindi literature, Agyeya's turbulent life also tells a history of the Hindi literary world and of a new nation-spanning as it does two world wars, Independence and Partition, and the building and fraying of the Nehruvian state. Akshaya Mukul's comprehensi...
Signatures
Anthology of about 400 poems by one hundred modern poets writing in twenty Indian languages including English.
Essays on Rajputana
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The stories in this anthology hold an element of surprise for Western readers who expect an Indian narrative technique and an Indian fabric of life. On the contrary, the stories talk about universal experiences that go beyond geographical boundaries and reach out to share a modern twentieth century sensibility with the West. A must for readers with a thirst for cross-cultural experiences.
Tyranny Lessons
The 21st century has seen a resurgence of authoritarian rule that often replicates past totalitarian systems, but is more refined and nuanced in its strategies of repression and exploitation. Entertainment, media, international travel, and prosperity create the appearance of flourishing individual freedoms while our lives and thoughts are increasingly monitored and manipulated. This disturbing trend raises the question of what exactly is meant by tyranny in its contemporary forms. In Tyranny Lessons, international writers from a dozen countries in Asia, the Middle East, Europe, and the Americas address these challenges as only literary writing can: through the perspective of lived experiences, imagined futures, and personal struggles. Tyranny Lessons also features the photography of Danny Lyon, the first photographer of the Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee, whose work documented the Civil Rights movement in the 1960s.
