I Won't Let You Go
In this stunning collection of poems by Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore, acclaimed translator Ketaki Kushari Dyson brilliantly captures the energy and lyricism of the legendary poet's verses. The...
View ArticleRed Lilies and Frightened Birds
Red Lilies and Frightened Birds is a collection of poems in praise of the three ancient Tamil royal dynasties—Cheras; Cholas and Pandyas. Translated from the early medieval Tamil classic Muttollayiram;...
View ArticleRed Lilies and Frightened Birds
Red Lilies and Frightened Birds is a collection of poems in praise of the three ancient Tamil royal dynasties"Cheras, Cholas and Pandyas. Translated from the early medieval Tamil classic Muttollayiram,...
View ArticleThe Loom of Time
Kalidasa is the greatest poet and playwright in classical Sanskrit literature and one of the greatest in world literature. Kalidasa is said to have lived and composed his work at the close of the first...
View ArticleGora
Nobel Prize-winning author Rabindranath Tagore's most ambitious work Gora unfolds against the vast, dynamic backdrop of Bengal under British rule, a divided society struggling to envisage an emerging...
View ArticleI, Lalla
"The poems of the fourteenth-century Kashmiri mystic Lal Ded, popularly known as Lalla, strike us like brief and blinding bursts of light. Epiphanic and provocative, they shuttle between the...
View ArticleThe Home and the World
There is nothing static, earthbound or lifeless about it . . . It has the complexity and tragic dimensions of Tagore's own time, and ours"-Anita Desai Set against the backdrop of the Partition of...
View ArticlePartitions
Kamleshwar's Kitne Pakistan enjoys cult status as a novel that dared to ask crucial questions about the making and writing of history. With India's partition in 1947 as its reference point, the novel...
View ArticlePerfect Wife
"Tryambakayajvan is almost certainly the famous Tryambakarayamakhin (AD 1665-1750), minister to two of the Maratha kings of Thanjavur (Sahaji and Serfoji). Famous in his own right as a scholar of...
View ArticleThe Ramayana
"One of India’s greatest epics, the Ramayana pervades the country’s moral and cultural consciousness. Believed to have been composed by Valmiki sometime between the eighth and sixth centuries BC, the...
View ArticleLifting the Veil
At a time when writing by and about women was rare and tentative, Chughtai explored female sexuality with unparalleled frankness and examined the political and social mores of her time. She wrote about...
View ArticleSelected Poems
Jibanananda Das's lyricism is unparalleled in Bengali literature. His early poems are vivid, eloquent celebrations of the beauty of Bengal; his later works, written in the 1940s and 50s, are darker,...
View ArticleThe Giver of the Worn Garland
"And below her hair, she would put on a garlandand spend a few minutes just gazing into a pond,seeing her reflection and satisfying her desirebefore turning awayand returning the worn garland to her...
View ArticleThe Bhagavad Gita
"‘A true votary of Gita does not know what disappointment is. He ever dwells in perennial joy and peace that passeth understanding.’—Mahatma GandhiThe Bhagavad Gita, a scintillating jewel embedded in...
View ArticleCilappatikaram
"‘Men and women of Maturai of the four temples! I curse this city. Its king erred in killing the man I loved’One of the world's masterpieces, The Cilappatikaram (5th century ce) by Ilanko Atikal is...
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