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…
By: Krin Van Tatenhove I’m a big fan of John RC Potter’s writing, so I was excited to open his recent novella, The General Store at Four Corners. It’s one of three pieces featured in Body Lines, an annual…
By Douglas Young You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.–William Faulkner. It is breathtaking how much phenomenal music Jimi Hendrix squeezed into a recording career of not even four years. In…