Reviewed by Tasnima Yasmin Moving, mysterious and gracious, every word of Shanti Panna is dedicated to the soul of the reader. The idea behind writing this collection of long and short poems came up in the poet’s mind when she observed that every individual goes through a similar set of emotions. These emotions are universal…
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Review of Tongue in Cheek by Khyrunnisa A.
By Tasnima Yasmin Whoever thinks that humour isn’t a woman’s forte hasn’t read Tongue In Cheek by Khyrunnisa A. Cheeky, quirky and everything witty, this is a light read, one to lift up your mood, to take you through bursts of giggles and chuckles around all that is mundane and humdrum about life. Imaginative with…
Ruth Padel’s Daughters of the Labyrinth: A Review
By Kiran Bhat Ruth Padel’s second novel Daughters of the Labyrinth (Corsair, London, 2021) sojourns onto the island of Crete through the eyes of a British woman of Greek ancestry named Ri. Ri has returned to Crete in a bid to make sense of the narrative which pushed her family towards the United Kingdom, and…
Book Review: A Witch Like You
Reviewed by Tasnima Yasmin An intricately crafted debut collection of subjective, literary and political poems, the title of A Witch Like You occurred to Sareen in a dream at 3 am. The word witch in the title has dual connotations of being a positive and negative entity, one that captivates and bewitches others though rather…
Book Review: Dubai Heights
Reviewed by Tasnima Yasmin Based on a sandy- beige building in Oud Metha locality of Dubai which was her abode during her stay as an Indian expatriate in the United Arab Emirates, Chakraborty sketches the background for her debut short story collection Dubai Heights. The eponymous building is depicted as a plush apartment complex in…
Sach Kahun Toh: An honest reckoning of a remarkable life
By Rituparna Roy Towards the end of ‘Sach Kahu Toh’, in Part 4, Neena Gupta begins a chapter (Bloody Mary) thus: “When I look back on my past, I see a recurring theme. Neena gets shot down. Neena rises from the ashes. Neena overcomes her obstacles. Neena reaches great heights (though still not as the…
TWI Reviews – Poornima Laxmeshwar’s ‘Thirteen’
Poornima Laxmeshwar’s ‘Thirteen’, a collection of thirteen prose poems, is a cardigan of memories knitted from simple observations and conversations unique to one’s own home and surroundings. A synaethesia of colours and textures etched in a technicolour that refuses to fade away. They depict the transformation of a child’s musings into a mature perspective. …
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