"One of the many sensitive issues opened up by critical Women’s studies in contemporary India revolves around the precarious status of homoerotic love, as actual practice, conceptual issue and subject of representation," discuss Sissy Helff and Vera
Alexander in their article.
"Perhaps dreams are all, as this collection seems to suggest ... perhaps the work done, no matter how mundane, or how grand, is the song and the dance, and the lines and scars we bear from it, dignify. And perhaps poetry honours this wild dream of living." Writes Patricia Prime reviewing The River Returns.
" ...which like a cancerous growth was eating her up from inside. Even a year ago she could pacify her broiling self with the lie ‘he could never reach me.’ But now?....." Read on Gorima Basu’s absorbing tale of a housewife on a tenterhook.
"Look that’s the Maidan, like their Hyde Park in London city - / That may have been one of the reasons why they felt at home."
Read Sanjukta Dasgupta’s delightful and nostalgic reminiscence of the famed maidan of Kolkata.
