“The silence in Moraes’ poem is not empty, but it is filled with experiences that cannot be spoken. The poem therefore refuses the expectation that trauma should reveal itself through confession. Instead, silence becomes the language through which distress communicates.” (Jimmy Sharma in “Writing the Wounded Self – Absence, Trauma and Psychological Distress in Selected Poems of Dom Moraes”). (FEATURE)

“There is no closure as in healthy mourning, but the hurt stays inside him, with music an imperfect, recurring sublimation of a loss that survives only in becoming form. The hurt persists.” (Divya Pradhan in “The Persistence of Hurt – Melancholia and Depression in Michael Holme’s Character in Vikram Seth’s An Equal Music”).  (FEATURE)

“It is finally shown in Amitav Ghosh's Gun Island that the present-day climate crisis cannot be deciphered in terms of science alone; instead, what is required is the recollection of historical memory contained in folklore to bring out the impact of the Anthropocene on the psychological as well as ecological aspects.” – Anirban Sen in his literary article.  (LITERARY SECTION)

The word mother is all-encompassing – she embraces unconditionally, tolerates everything aggressively and exudes love eternally; yet she becomes the victim in her final phase. The story is far more complex, miserable and pathetic than the modest title Market Price by Purabi Bormudoi (pic) and translated by Ananda Bormudoi.  (FICTION)

An artist begins his journey, travels through several phases of life, enduring hardships and finally a day comes when everything ends, akin to the decayed statues he created. Among Broken Statues by Salam Bin Razzaq (pic), translated by Syed Kashif, shows that however difficult the times may be, there is always hope.  (FICTION)

 Richard Rose’s poems reflect a deep sensitivity towards nature and the ways in which it is intertwined with our emotions and the changing situations that life brings. (POETRY)

Madhusudan Tyagi’s poems offer a refreshing take on loneliness, making us rethink both the idea of this feeling and the many ways in which it can be experienced. (POETRY)

Namrata Pathania (in the pic) reviews The Migrants and Other Poems by Vidya Hariharan, reading Mumbai as “a palimpsest – a city where successive histories, memories, and identities continually overwrite one another without completely erasing the past.”

Some other engaging reviews are – Pushpa Subramanian’s reading of Morning Twilight by Jayshree Misra Tripathi and Sindhoor Varkoor’s review of Kailash Satyarthi’s   Karuna: The Power of Compassion.  (BOOK REVIEWS)

Dr Rositta Joseph’s (in the pic) reading of   Nishi Chawla’s Indigenized/Tribalized celebrates the remarkable breadth of a timely and relevant poetry collection, showing how Chawla transforms poetry into “history, politics, ecological studies, indigenous scholarship – all rolled into one.” 

Equally interesting is the review of a poetry collection titled Days of Recovery by Nomita Kapoor, reviewed by Snehaprava Das and Sunaina Jain’s review of Sakoon Singh’s historical fiction Fourteen Springs of Separation.  (BOOK REVIEWS)