Author: R. C. Shukla
Pages: 83
Year of Publication: 2000
Price: HB Rs 100, FB Rs 60
ISBN:
HB 81-7595-696-8 (8175956968)
FB 81-7595-697-6 (8175956976)

About the Author:
R. C. Shukla, Head of the Department of English, K. G. K. College at Moradabad, is a well known bilingual poet from Northern India. He has published his English poems in several leading poetry journals in India including the Delhi-based Indian Literature.

Teaser:

The firmament in your eyes is very dear to me

The firmament in your eyes is very dear to me
And also the moonlight of your smiles
You are the quintessence of depth
Which only sirens have.
In your limpid, gratifying water
Am I keen to lave.

Your love is like ether
All pervasive and serene
I urge upon you
To be sentient to my pain
During this night of rain.

Very tenuous is my temper
And also impatient for your air
Like a sanguine suitor
Have I this day come to your gate
I have never been to their smell
Let me possess your hair.

Contents:
The firmament in your eyes is very dear to me / 9
Enamoring you are but never discreet / 10
Life at so many stations is the examination of our will / 11
We are a nexus of the near and far / 12
I do not possess the fate of Peleus / 13
Can you not Hermia keep your name? / 14
It cannot be / 15
Love degenerated to craving grows contemptuous / 16
Green wounds dry up the man / 17
The man who is man / 18
No, it cannot be / 19
When priorities change / 20
Let it remain like this / 21
The Ritual / 22
A meaningless knot / 23
The end we so eagerly sought / 24
Our desires depreciate our will / 25
Better are the people who are ignorant since birth / 26
The Search of Truth / 27
When night begins reminding / 28
The Guest / 29
Love's a Bee / 30
Man's Predicament / 31
The tree does not leave the leaf / 32
When doubts assail hope / 33
You should forever live / 34
A self imposed thrall / 35
Time passes slowly with a very swift speed / 36
I broke my pledge / 37
I met her in the church / 38
Are you the things I longed for? / 39
My envy that you are a bird / 40
Let me ride my hope / 41
An ailment of the mind / 42
How foolishly is the game of life by me played / 43
I shun myself with my might / 44
You poured honey into my days / 45
Lest death be my guide / 46
Animals / 47
Those who need do not forever wait / 48
The world beyond us is a show / 49
Illusions keep us gay / 50
The beginning to end starts with its birth / 51
My failure has stemmed from their success / 52
I forget not the doctor / 53
Henceforth I must be strong / 54
His hopes lie in the vault / 55
The tragedy is bound to be our lot / 56
This is the difference between now and then / 57
Death is a cool shower in June / 58
Nothing basically is consuming or not / 59
I cannot stay more than ordained / 60
Destiny was born with the rich persecuting the poor / 61
I wait for them over my glass of rum / 62
Had austerity been my guide / 63
Even the most stupid woman can manipulate the man / 64
The Woman for Man / 65
The Course Desirable / 66
Let me become a child again / 67
My best advisers have been my miseries / 68
Love without loyalty is a trade / 69
How can this life be a Charitable Power's offer? / 70
Improvidence / 71
Where the sweet honey contains the gall / 72
Walking inside the churchyard / 73
Man is God's toy for his game / 74
Hope is the most familiar guest / 75
Death Defined / 76
Death and Life / 77
It Also Happens / 78
The duration of life is brief / 79
All charitable people do themselves deceive / 80
Unrealistic Thought / 81
The Woman for Man / 82
God begins where vitality ends / 83

Title :A Morsel of Livelihood
Author : Priyaranjan Parhi
Price : HB Rs 150, FB Rs 100
Year of Publication: 2007

Title :A Place in the Sun
Author : Bishnupada Ray
Price : HB Rs 120, FB Rs 100
Year of Publication: 2007

Author: Tithi Tavora
Pages: 99
Year of Publication: 2002
Price: HB Rs 200, FB Rs 100
ISBN:
HB 81-7595-964-9 (8175959649)
FB 81-7595-965-7 (8175959657)

About the Author:
Tithi Tavora was born in Pune in 1960 to Bengali parents. Tithi worked at Marie Stopes' Clinic in New Delhi after the completion of her medical studies. During the aftermath of the riots in Delhi in 1984, she volunteered to join a medical team to treat the wounded in camps set up for the Sikh victims across the Jamuna in Delhi. In 1987, Tithi married Carlos. She established her clinic in Panjam and was a consultant to the INS Mandovi, Naval Base. She also worked at the Goa Cancer Society's Hospital in Panjam and, with her husband, regularly visited Peace Haven, a home in Caranzalem for the mentally challenged.

Teaser:

Search

Will I never find you,
even when I die?
Will my last, rasping breath
meet yours in the sky?
After life's endeavor
is it you I will find?
Or am I doomed forever
to roam fatherless and blind?
Will your ashes embrace mine
at the bottom of the sea?
Will the mighty Ganges
unite you and me?
Will I become like you
a star in my children's sky?
Father will I meet you
at l(e)ast when I die?

Contents:
Search / 11
My Father in Heaven / 12
The Grande Finale / 13
A Farewell / 14
Rainbow Funeral / 14
Generation Gap / 15
Donna Maria / 16
Mother / 17
Haldi-Kumkum / 20
The Keys / 21
Evening News / 23
Famine Miss India 1947-97 / 24
A Letter from a Son / 25
I Cannot Say... / 28
National Flag / 29
Partition / 30
A Day in the Life of a Newspaper / 31
Holi / 32
The Emperor's New Clothes / 33
The Farmer's Feet / 34
Optics / 35
A Letter to You / 36
Sweet Slumber / 38
Bouquet / 39
Why I Pressed a Flower / 40
Call on Me / 41
Lifeline / 42
Brandy Eyes / 43
Kiss Me / 44
No More Nights Please / 45
Desolation / 46
A Drive / 47
Rage / 48
The Wind Is a Heavenly Body / 49
Reunion / 50
Across the Courtyard / 51
Highlights:
DAWN / 45
DUSK / 55
SUNSET / 56
GLORY / 56
The Conifer's Complaint / 57
At the Table / 58
The Coconut Tree / 59
The Communion / 61
The Lily / 63
Geranium / 64
Nasturtium / 65
A Miner / 65
Question / 66
Dharma Cola / 67
"Bad Karma..." / 70
Hey Jalebi / 70
The Name of the Game / 71
Panjim City / 72
The Mixed-up Farm / 73
STORIES
Nani / 77
D. Serefina Magarida Soares e Souza / 95

Author: Pervin Chhapkhanawala
Pages: 48
Year of Publication: 2009
Price: HB Rs 120, FB Rs 100
ISBN:
HB 978-81-8157-843-3 (9788181578433)
FB 978-81-8157-844-0 (9788181578440)

About the Author:
Pervin Chhapkhanawala is a writer, editor and poet. Born in Mumbai in 1984, she studied in Queen Mary School, St. Xavier's College and then obtained her M.A. in English Literature from S.N.D.T. University in 2007. She works as an English language consultant at a publishing house that brings out academic books. She also writes for India Today's Prevention and Pink, Bride and Style, trendelicious.com and a few other publications. Outside of writing, she holds a black belt in karate. At present, she stays with her husband in Pune.

Teaser:

Unloving You

It's hardest but most essential
Reversing all the distance
Distancing all the closeness
Eyes indulge a last rinse
Skin cells undo the caress.

That, or risk

The love turning grotesque
Bathed in jealousy
Steeped in comparison
Lose all sensitivity
Shrink the grandeur within.

Either one has to die
The love or the potential.
Correction,
The love would have died anyway.
I save what can be saved.

Contents:
I danced / 9
A visit from void / 10
A repeat visit from void / 11
Cheating / 12
Hole in my heart / 13
Winner / 14
The enemy / 15
Candle and love / 16
Snow White wakes up / 17
The 1:15 silence / 18
Unloving you / 19
Twenty six letters / 20
Time, my lover / 21
The river / 22
The pact / 23
The Lost Woman / 24
The bear hunt / 25
Spinning / 27
Now the tears don't fall / 28
A poet / 29
No, I don't think of you / 30
No, don't say it / 31
Mummy / 32
Neighbours / 33
Holding back / 34
Heart on rent / 35
Don't expect / 36
Capital punishment / 37
An unequal battle / 38
Absent presence / 39
I wait for myself / 40
Wonderland ceased to be / 41
A marathon love / 42
Dragons / 43
A tinge of turmeric / 44

Author: Kamayani Sharma
Pages: 94
Price: HB Rs 100
Year of Publication: 2005

Author: Mallikarjun B. Mulimani
Price: HB Rs 150, FB Rs 100
Year of Publication: 2007

Author: Abhinav Sacheti
Pages: 67
Year of Publication: 1998
Price: HB Rs 150, FB Rs 60
ISBN:
HB 81-7595-406-X (817595406X)
FB 81-7595-402-8 (8175954028)

About the Author:
Born in Jodhpur, a city in north-western India, on October 2, 1984, Abhinav Sacheti moved with his family to Muscat, the capital of Oman, in early 1987. He completed his schooling there, at the British-American Academy.

Teaser:

Come Back Soon

I hope you come back soon
For I get bored alone
Sometimes it is raining
And I can't go out to play
And when it is cold and windy
I have to stay indoors
And then I miss you more.
I sometimes play basketball
To pass my time when it is sunny
Yet I feel bored.
But make sure
You come back soon,
My dear dad.

Contents:
Come Back Soon / 13
Oh, these Puzzling People / 14
Life and Death / 15
Final Departure / 16
Pain / 17
Agony: the Killer / 18
Without You / 19
Between Life And Check / 20
Reign of Darkness / 21
Why? / 22
The Shadow of the Intruder / 23
The Special Waves / 24
One Final Groan / 25
The Killing of the Silence / 26
The Broken Heart / 27
Silent Suffering / 28
Past and Present / 29
The Passing Away / 31
The Piercing Arrow / 32
The Disguised Devil / 33
Life -- the Master / 34
The Spirit / 35
Dying in the Mist / 36
Just Another Onlooker / 37
The Train / 38
Our Life Goes on / 39
Hurt Feelings / 40
Can She Ever Punish? / 41
At Last / 42
It's Going to Kill Me / 43
The Cry of Death / 44
And He Finally Gives up / 45
The Oasis in the Desert / 46
That Unique Messenger / 47
The Storm / 48
Darkness Forever / 49
The Special Birds / 50
Over the Field / 51
Finished / 52
The Mourning / 53
The Passing Wind / 54
Stop it Please / 55
Anger / 57
Hope / 58
The Deed of the Dead / 60
The Gradual Death / 61
Realization / 63
The Burdened Life / 64
Fireballs / 65
The Grave / 66
Agonies of Life / 67

Author: Hoshang Merchant
Pages: 40
Price: HB Rs 80, FB Rs 60
Year of Publication: 2006

Author: Rupanjali Baruah
Pages: 64
Price: HB Rs 120, FB Rs 80
Year of Publication: 2005