By: Team Literary Yard (‘The Roar at Twilight’ is a poetry collection written by Mahathi (Mydavolu Venkata Satyanarayana)). The Roar at Twilight is an ambitious undertaking: a 108-sonnet retelling, in English, of the Puranic legend of Hiranyakashipu, his devout son…
By: Alex Dzhoganov At the beginning of The Name of the Rose, William of Baskerville does something that looks almost like a magic trick. The monastery servants are looking for a runaway horse, and William, who has never seen it,…
By Thomas Sanfilip To draw inspiration from a poet like Guillame Apollinaire—one of the foremost French poets of the early 20th century and who died over a hundred years ago—and to translate his work for a modern audience today is…
By: Pradeep Trikha Gopal Lahiri Selected PoemsSelected by Sanjeev SethiCLASSIX (An imprint of Hawakal)Aug 2025, ISBN: 978-81-988424-0-4, ₹650, 128 pages Contemporary Indian English poetry increasingly functions as a dynamic contact zone where personal memory, historical consciousness, ecological awareness, and metaphysical…
By Somdatta Mandal Title: ‘Santiniketan: Nature’s Gateway to Spirituality‘ Authors: Bitann Chakraborty and Kiriti SenguptaPublication: Hawakal Publishers Pvt. Ltd, 2026; Price: Rs. 1500/- In 1863 Maharshi Debendranath Tagore acquired twenty bighas of land in the village of Bhubandanga in a…
By: Adam Page I have to be honest from the outset. When someone tells me their favourite novel is A Confederacy of Dunces, I need to know why. Because two types of people love this book, and they exist on…
By: Ramlal Agarwal Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude brought him overnight success. It is the story of a primitive family, the Buendias, in the wild swamps of Colombia. The novel portrays the family’s inbreeding and its disastrous…
By: Pradeep Trikha This essay critically examines the poetry of Kiriti Sengupta, situating his work within the broader evolutionary trajectory of his literary oeuvre. It argues that Sengupta occupies a highly specialised, singular niche in contemporary Indian English poetry by…
By Thomas Sanfilip How a country’s cultural heritage finds its way to the future intact is a hidden miracle. The how and why is a mystery to most writers, particularly those who write serious literature. And pursuing a place alongside…
Review of Scenes from the Magic Mountain: Five Seasons in the Mussoorie Hills and Beyond, published by Speaking Tiger Books By Mitali Chakravarty Ruskin Bond’s Scenes from the Magic Mountain: Five Seasons in the Mussoorie Hills and Beyond has writings…