Of “saffron sunsets” and “frivolous clairvoyances”: Rajorshi Patranabis’s Gossips Of Our Surrogate Story

Rajorshi Patranabis’ latest collection of poems Gossips Of Our Surrogate Story, published by Hawakal in 2025 is a fulsome tribute to his Wiccan proclivity and its “pagan pulses” (32) through an allegorical yoking of the personal and the mythical.