Description

The crisp, bracing air of the Himalayas breathes through Guru Ladakhi’s poems, filling them with energy and grace. These poems record a vivid spectrum of moods, ranging from the pensive and mournful to the festive and effervescent. Ladakhi’s sensibility is at home in many genres: he offers us songs and haiku, portraits and elegies. — Ranjit Hoskote, poet

A vital romantic whose species are in danger, Guru T Ladakhi’s verse is assuredly lyrical. Working on an evanescent canvas, he can re-enchant a world we yielded to modernist detachedness and loneliness. — Robin S Ngangom, poet

In Songs Without Borders, Guru T Ladakhi bridges the sad, the serene, and the sublime, offering poetic narratives that authentically express Himalayan life in vivid English, while also reaching into the universal human condition. — Phillip Nikolayev, poet and founding editor, Fulcrum Literary Journal

Born and living in Gangtok, Sikkim, Guru T Ladakhi graduated with Honours from the Sri Ram College of Commerce, Delhi University, the wrong place for a person of his disposition. His poems have appeared in many journals and is also taught in schools and Universities of Sikkim. His first collection of poems titled Monk on a Hill (Speaking Tiger) was launched in January 2017 at the Brahmaputra Literary Festival, Guwahati. Guru is also an alumnus of the International Writing Program 2023, University of Iowa.