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The 56 poems that make up this collection take on a variety of voices commoners, wanderers, people close to power (but never in power) that range in tone from nostalgic to ironic to bitter to outraged. While Cavafy, Borges and Calvino are easy touchstones, it is Vermas keen political eye that sets him apart, and Magadh remains a unique book one of the most important collections of Hindi poetry, and the masterpiece of a great world poet. Magadh, Shrikant ...
Fiction. South Asia Studies. "Sharmistha Mohanty is remarkable above all for her determination to shift narrative away from the easy urgencies of Western fiction towards a text that hovers between the contemplative and the hypnotic, sculpting extended landscapes of feeling from the quiet friction between realism and myth. To read FIVE MOVEMENTS IN PRAISE is like coming across an animal of a new species, but one that immediately appears to be in tune with its ...