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Book Review

A Quest For Truth

In the nuanced realm of legal fiction, where the interplay between truth and its provability continues to engage both jurists and writers alike, Dr. Sujay Kantawala’s latest book “The Verdict: Who Killed Sonia Verma?” emerges as a thoughtful and measured narrative.

The Thespians’ Tome

Ananda Lal: In our traditional theatre, a single episode from the Mahabharata may take all night. What made you decide your time frame?

Sentiments of a woman

Parshati is a bilingual (English-Bengali) novel by Soumyanetra, an academic, poet and short story writer. The novel spread over 29 chapters navigates troubling routes of self-realisation and self-denial that take the readers through the demands of motherhood and the challenges of coming to terms with losing one’s mother.

Counting the lost links

Dr Jaydeep Sarangi’s Memories of Words, which is his tenth book of English poems and eleventh volume of verse, invites the reader into a sanctuary of sounds and silences, replete with the whispers of words, susurration of syllables and traces of tongues.

Negotiating land and power

Remaking History is based on the oral accounts of those who witnessed the Police Action, it also draws on written accounts and historical documents to reveal the history of Hyderabad, the Telangana armed struggle, and most importantly, the cultural and political discourses that characterise Hyderabad.

Resistance, hope & resilience

Wound is the Shelter is a collection of poems initially composed in Bengali and subsequently translated into English by Angshuman Kar himself. This unique collection of poetry offers the readers profound insights on universal pain and suffering and the wound that is left in its wake.

Weaving the grace of changing time

Amit Chaudhuri writes, “Sensuous, playful, and vulnerable, Sekhar Banerjee’s poems are loving annotations on a life lived in intimate attentiveness”.