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Regular readers of World Literature Today will have noticed the infrequency with which Indian books from one of the twenty or so major regional languages are reviewed; only occasionally do [...]

Ranjit Hoskote, ed. New Delhi. Viking Penguin India. 2002. xxvii + 148 pages, Rs195. ISBN 0-67-089094-4 THIS SELECTION OF FOURTEEN Indian poets in English, coming from a (or perhaps the) [...]

Bidhu Padhi, Painting the House. Hyderabad. Disha/Orient Longman. 1999. viii + 79 pages. Rs150. ISBN 81-250-1543-4. PAINTING THE HOUSE IS Bibhu Padhi's fourth book of poems, the third counting his [...]

Rukmini Bhaya Nair. The Ayodhya Cantos. New Delhi. Viking Penguin. 1999. 139 pages. Rs195. ISBN 0-670-88840-0. ALTHOUGH SOME YEARS AGO I read through Rukmini Bhaya Nair's collection The Hyoid Bone [...]

Chandrabhaga: A Magazine of Indian Writing. Jayanta Mahapatra, ed. New Series, no. 1. Cuttack, Orissa, India. Privately printed. 2000. 128 pages. Single copy Rs75; 1 year (2 issues) Rs150/US$25. As [...]

Shiv K. Kumar. Woolgathering. New Delhi. Disha/Orient Longman. 1998. 75 pages. Rs60. ISBN 81-250-1549-3. This new volume of poems from a poet well known in the last generation (b. 1921) [...]

New Delhi. Indialog. 2002 120 pages. Rs250. ISBN 81-87981-14-8 MADRAS-BORN UMA PARAMESWARAN emigrated to Canada in 1966, having earlier come to the United States as a Fulbright student, receiving her [...]

Narayan Hegde, ed. & tr. New Delhi. Penguin Books India. 1999 (released 2000). xii + 228 pages. Rs250. ISBN 0-14-028524-5 THESE 'SEVEN masterful stories' by the author of several previously [...]

New Delhi. Konarka. 2001. 115 pages Rs200. ISBN 81-220-0603-5 THIS SELECTION OF over one hundred mostly self-translated short lyrics (none over two pages) by the highly regarded Malayalam poet K. [...]

Jayanta Mahapatra. Bare Face Kottayam, Kerala, India. DC Books 2000. 79 pages. ISBN 81-264-0253-9 THE FRONT COVER and frontispiece feature a photo of some lovely 4,000-year-old Egyptian hieroglyphs, but the [...]

Makarand Paranjape Towards a Poetics of the Indian English Novel Shimla. Indian Institute of Advanced Study 2000. 143 pages. Rs200. ISBN 81-85952-75-2 MAKARAND PARANJAPE'S BOOK is both more and less [...]

Keki N. Daruwalla. Night River New Delhi. Rupa. 2000. 112 pages Rs95, ISBN 81-7167-480-1 WHAT A GREAT PLEASURE to read and reread for review and to have for fresh rereadings [...]

Of this latest of Jayanta Mahapatra's twelve books of new poems in English (plus two sets of selections, plus four books of translations from Oriya and three recent books of [...]

Those coming fresh to Meena Alexander's work need not see this book, as I do, in the context of the author's previous writings. From that more interpersonal perspective it becomes [...]

To indicate how difficult book publication is even for important Indian English poets, it may be noted that River and Bridge was substantially ready in 1988 or at least 1990, [...]

Surprising pleasures come with this first volume from a poet publishing for some years now in journals such as Critical Quarterly, Bombay Literary Review, Kavya Bharati, New Quest, and Indian [...]