# The Remnant Glow

- Link: https://writersworkshopindia.com/2016/08/02/the-remnant-glow/
- Published: 2016-08-02T00:21:06+00:00
- Author: shuktara

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**Authors:** Meera Chakravorty, Elsa Maria Lindqvist[⌊WW⌉](https://writersworkshopindia.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/WW.jpg)
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Pages:** 72 **Year of Publication:** 2016 **Price:** Rs 150 **ISBN: **978-93-5045-
127-4 (9789350451274)

_**About the Authors**_

**Meera Chakravorty** is a research faculty in the Department of Cultural Studies,
Jain University, Bangalore, India. She has translated into Kannada Bengali novels
that won Sahitya Akademi (National Academy of Letters) awards, like Manoj Basu’s
_Nishikutumba_ and Amiyabhushan Majumdar’s _Rajnagar_, as well as a collection of
Jibanananda Das’s poetry and Saonli Mitra’s play _Nathavati Anathavat_. She translated
into Bengali a collection of Kannada _Vachana_s (by medieval poet visionaries challenging
stereotypes) and the renowned Kannada author Devnoor Mahadev. _Essays in Philosophy
and Culture_, _Consciousness, Time and Praxis_, and _Colours of Mind_, along with
edited volumes and poetry collections in both English and Bengali, are some of her
other publications. Her domains of interest are philosophy, social justice, women’s
studies and cultural studies. Her philosophical research on “Enquiry into Time” 
was awarded by the John Templeton Foundation, USA. She was a member of the Karnataka
State Women’s Commission. Her involvement in women’s struggles over the years has
been recorded in many journals.

**Elsa Maria Lindqvist** was born in 1953. She has for many years been a teacher
at an upper secondary school in Norrköping, Sweden, where she teaches World Religions,
Swedish language and literature, and English. She has taken many courses in mysticism
within the world religions, paints, writes articles and poems, and has been able
to travel extensively in later years (for example, India, Bhutan, Indonesia). At
the conference “Mysticism without Bounds” in Bangalore, India, in 2011, she met 
Meera Chakravorty and they found a connection with each other immediately. They 
met again in 2014 at the following world conference in Christ University, Bangalore,
and then decided on a joint poetry project, which grew into this book.

_**About the Book**_

“Human beings boast of their achievements in the area of ‘development’. Since many
of them become the monstrous champions of development, they fail to realize how 
another struggle is going on silently. The struggle by the trees, the birds and 
other beings for a little space for survival. In the indigenous literature of India,
the trees, the birds and other beings than the humans are considered as much ‘people’
as the human beings are. This anthropomorphic concern was, to a great extent, responsible
for conservation of environment in India. However, the arrogance of market economy
over the years has constantly assailed both this thought and the necessary actions
pursued. I find myself overwhelmed with a longing to be in conversation with these‘
people’, unable to really measure their loss and grief, though. Elsa Maria is possibly
more lucky to have found less rupture in her country’s landscape but she can, I 
am sure, feel the grief and joy through those who are less fortunate.”

_Meera Chakravorty_

“How come I, who live in a comfortable, modern, organized, rather equal society,
write darker poems than my friend Meera, who comes from a more chaotic but also 
vibrant part of the world? Does that have to do with different personalities or 
has it more to do with the difference in our societies? Probably both, I would say.
You could perhaps put it this way: I focus on the roots and twisted twigs of a tree
while she focuses on the green treetops. Nature is very important to both of us,
though. I live in close proximity to forests and lakes, while my friend lives in
a big city. In spite of differences, we both, and all other people, live in the 
same world and need to understand how dependent we all are on this blue planet called
Earth for our survival.”

_Elsa Maria Lindqvist_

You can read a review of the book in [Kitaab](https://kitaab.org/2017/01/02/book-review-the-remnant-glow-by-meera-chakravorty-and-elsa-maria-lindqvist/).

_**Contents**_
 40 poems (20 by each poet)

## Comments

### By: swathi

- Link: https://writersworkshopindia.com/2016/08/02/the-remnant-glow/#comment-30
- Published: 2017-01-21T11:34:06+00:00

Meera Chakravorty and Elsa Maria Lindqvist’s book is very nice…Thanks for sharing
such a great article

### By: Elsa Maria Lindqvist

- Link: https://writersworkshopindia.com/2016/08/02/the-remnant-glow/#comment-31
- Published: 2018-11-25T19:01:57+00:00

Thank you so much. A comment is always appreciated and we are glad to realize that
our book has reached a few more people, after all!

All the best,
 Elsa Maria