Maati is a quarterly magazine of liberal progressive thought in Hindi and is published with the support of Raza Foundation. Under review here is its twentieth issue concentrating on the writer-poet Gagan Gill. Gagan Gill has had a four decades long literary career in which she has been an editor, translator, journalist along with publishing her poetry, prose and travel writing. She has been conferred the Kedar Samman, the Sanskriti Samman and the Hindi Akademy Sahityakar Samman. Wife of renowned writer Nirmal Verma, Gagan Gill’s writing shares with him modernist and spiritual sensibility.
The special issue is divided into five sections. The first section titled ‘Vichar Vyuh’ establishes the thematic concerns in Gill’s writings and tethers the broad debates in her ideational universe. It has nineteen articles covering the range of her writings. The second section contains seven interviews. Most are compilations of older interviews given elsewhere that have been translated into Hindi from English or transcribed from recordings.