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St Xavier’s College, Kolkata, starts annual Professor P. Lal Memorial Lecture

To commemorate Professor P. Lal’s contributions as a professor, the Department of English at St Xavier’s College, where he taught for over 40 years, has initiated a Professor P. Lal Memorial Lecture series to be held annually. The inaugural lecture will be delivered by Dr Pradip Bhattacharya on P. Lal’s birthday, 28 August, at the […]

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One Hundred Questions for Light

Author: Mandira Mitra Chakraborty Pages: 88 Year of Publication: 2025 Price: ₹350 ISBN: 978-81-985733-1-5 (9788198573315) About the Author Born in Ranchi on 29 January 1974, Mandira Mitra Chakraborty, as early as she can remember, wanted to be an astronaut. Ensconced in a family of wannabe poets whose unsold books lay in heaps in cupboards like wounded […]

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The Enigma of the Voyage

Author: Ritwik Ghosh Pages: 94 Year of Publication: 2025 Price: ₹400 ISBN: 978-81-985733-3-9 (9788198573339) About the Author Ritwik Ghosh was born in India. He was educated in India and the United States and is now engaged in higher studies in literature. He composes music in the Western classical tradition. This is his fourth book of poetry […]

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Singing to the Eumenides

Author: Tansy Troy Pages: 94 Year of Publication: 2025 Price: ₹400 ISBN: 978-81-985733-2-2 (9788198573322) About the Author Tansy Troy is an India-based poet, educator, performer and artist who grew up in the heart of Covent Garden before travelling to Greece, Morocco, Wales, Japan and the Himalayas, stopping off en route to complete her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in […]

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Nothingness ~ Love Poems

Author: Bharat Luthra Pages: 94 Year of Publication: 2025 Price: ₹400 ISBN: 978-81-985733-6-0 (9788198573360) About the Author Bharat Luthra is a thinker, animalist, environmentalist, poet and writer. He runs a foundation dedicated to climate-change awareness, advocacy, afforestation and reforestation. Bharat believes that the purpose of human civilization is to grow as old as possible, which can only be […]

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Sritama Sen’s ‘There Used to Be a Lake Here Once’ declared runner-up at Muse India Young Writer Awards 2024

We are happy to share that Sritama Sen’s There Used to Be a Lake Here Once has been adjudged runner-up in the Ambika Ananth Award for Poetry category of this year’s Muse India Young Writer Awards. The judges’ citation described their book as ‘at once exceptional, impactful, and rich in poetry’. Says Sritama: “I am immensely […]

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Quo Vida

Author: Dilip Menon Pages: 80 Year of Publication: 2025 Price: ₹300/ $10 ISBN: 978-81-9785733-4-6 (97881978573346) About the Author Dilip M. Menon is a cultural historian of South Asia and is currently a Professor of History and International Relations at the University of Witwatersrand. He has written on literature and film, and his primary work deals […]

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Hope in the Season of No Flowers

Author: Satish Kumar Sharma Pages: 100 Year of Publication: 2025 Price: ₹400 ISBN: 978-81-979136-5-5 (9788197913655) About the Author Satish Kumar Sharma was born in Rajasthan in 1959. A post-graduate in commerce and graduate in law, he was an officer in the State Bank of India three years before joining the Indian Police Service in 1986. […]

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