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Quesadilla and Other Adventures
The poems in this anthology talk appetizingly about food as an allegory, food as a reality, and food as everything in-between, inviting the readers to a scrumptious literary meal, and taking them on a rich gastronomic journey.
Freedom Raga 2020
Freedom Raga 2020 is a collection of 74 poems commemorating India's 74th Independence Day. This book is truly 'the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings' of veterans and newer voices alike – all distinct, all very passionate. This anthology is embellished with great minds of the time such as Nabaneeta Dev Sen (translated by Nandana Sen), Keki Daruwala, Bashabi Frazer, Ashoke Viswanathan, and Hoshang Merchant as well as Professors from Jawaharlal Nehru University, University of Calcutta, Indian Institute Management, and several institutions from all over the country alongside new fresh voices.
Translation and Race
Translation and Race brings together translation studies with critical race studies for a long-overdue reckoning with race and racism in translation theory and practice. This book explores the "unbearable whiteness of translation" in the West that excludes scholars and translators of color from the field and also upholds racial inequities more broadly. Outlining relevant concepts from critical race studies, Translation and Race demonstrates how norms of translation theory and practice in the West actually derive from ideas rooted in white supremacy and other forms of racism. Chapters explore translation’s role in historical processes of racialization, racial capitalism and intellectual pro...
Firesongs
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Writing Places
There are many ways to travel between India and the UK in general, and Calcutta and Norwich in particular. You could take a plane and then the bus or the train, or perhaps a taxi. You could even sail. But what if you traveled via literature instead? In Writing Places you will find such a journey. This collection draws together stories, poems, photographs, memoirs, confessions, and investigations from some of the most imaginative writers and photographers working in the UK and India today to create a journey between the two lands that you can savor with your mind, heart, and even body. A unique work for armchair travelers, Writing Places lets us move between two countries that share a long history in a first-of-its-kind collection of words and images.
In Tumultuous Light, Rhapsodies!
This poetry collection is an impassioned exploration of life, contemplating its existential realities and dreams on the wings of fluid poems that soar bright open vistas. There are rhapsodies in praise of earth, language, romance, sound and the texture of home; juxtaposed against pensive reflections on the tumultuous times we live in - war, disease, injustice. In another dimension, there are treks through space and time, all the way to the moon, and also across centuries in search of lost treasure. Some of the section headings are Language, Odyssey, Dimension, Rhapsody, Epiphany, Friendship, Magic, Romance. It is a setting where sudden meanings erupt, therefore, epiphanies abound! Poetic forms range from sestina to free verse and ghazal in the ninety-two selected poems, that accord a special place to magical earth, adventures, melodies and trees.
The World That Belongs To Us
'A bold and necessary correction to the subcontinent's poetry canon.' - Jeet Thayil This first-of-its-kind anthology brings together the best of contemporary queer poetry from South Asia, both from the subcontinent and its many diasporas.The anthology features well-known voices like Hoshang Merchant, Ruth Vanita, Suniti Namjoshi, Kazim Ali, Rajiv Mohabir as well as a host of new poets. The themes range from desire and loneliness, sexual intimacy and struggles, caste and language, activism both on the streets and in the homes, the role of family both given and chosen, and heartbreaks and heartjoins. Writing from Bangalore, Baroda, Benares, Boston, Chennai, Colombo, Dhaka, Delhi, Dublin, Karachi, Kathmandu, Lahore, London, New York City, and writing in languages including Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Urdu, Manipuri, Malayalam, Marathi, Punjabi, Tamil, and, of course, English, the result is an urgent, imaginative and beautiful testament to the diversity, politics, aesthetics and ethics of queer life in South Asia today.
Saheb Bibi Golam
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A Country for Dying
An exquisite novel of North Africans in Paris by "one of the most original and necessary voices in world literature" WINNER OF THE 2021 PEN TRANSLATION PRIZE Paris, Summer 2010. Zahira is 40 years old, Moroccan, a prostitute, traumatized by her father's suicide decades prior, and in love with a man who no longer loves her. Zannouba, Zahira's friend and protege, formerly known as Aziz, prepares for gender confirmation surgery and reflects on the reoccuring trauma of loss, including the loss of her pre-transition male persona. Mojtaba is a gay Iranian revolutionary who, having fled to Paris, seeks refuge with Zahira for the month of Ramadan. Meanwhile, Allal, Zahira's first love back in Morocco, travels to Paris to find Zahira. Through swirling, perpendicular narratives, A Country for Dying follows the inner lives of emigrants as they contend with the space between their dreams and their realities, a schism of a postcolonial world where, as Taïa writes, "So many people find themselves in the same situation. It is our destiny: To pay with our bodies for other people's future."
