Featuring two essays by Pragya Tiwari & Ashutosh Potdar Ramu Ramanathan’s plays serve like a scalpel in dissecting the contemporary socio-political reality with an oblique eye on myths and history. The two plays in this volume serve as the best example of the sharpness of scalpel which he has been wielding untiringly for more than three […]
Edited by Nabina Das and published by Red River, Witness: The Red River Book of the Poetry of Dissent collects 250 poets who define the meaning of “dissent”, writing from a gamut of experiences and sensibilities — most undoubtedly first-hand, first and foremost, and also several as reactions and responses. Words reach out with a […]
The poems in this anthology originated from ‘Poetry Live’ — a curated experience on social media platform, Instagram, where poetry readings were led by the Indian Novels Collective and Mumbai’s much-loved bookstore Kitab Khana. Poet and critic Arundhathi Subramaniam, who inaugurated the series on 31 March 2020 with a reading of The Tent by Rumi, […]
Second Edition published in April 2025.
Samuel Beckett. For his minimalism, for his musical score with words, and for the genius of Krapp’s Last Tape and Happy Days. What are you reading now? Utsa Patnaik’s The Republic of Hunger and Other Essays. Roland Schimmelpfenning’s German plays in English. Jayant Pawar’s short stories in Marathi which I am trying to translate into English.