Rob Harle

Voices across the Ocean: Poems from Australia &India(Cyberwit, 2014)is third in a series of collaborative anthologies by Rob Harle and Jaydeep Sarangi. The collection brings together 12 national portraits in verse, featuring five Indian and five Australian contemporary poets and a poem each from the editors.


Reviewed by: Usha Kishore
Chandrika Balan

Chandrika Balan’s collection of short stories is a rich addition to the multicultural and multilingual reality of our times.


Reviewed by: Jasbir Jain
Doug Gunnery

This novel is by the well-known academic, the sociologist of middle-class India, Dipankar Gupta. The Crime Writers Festival at Delhi revealed that he had written LTY under the pseudonym of Doug Gunnery.


Reviewed by: G.J.V. Prasad
Bruce King

Bruce King’s Rewriting India charts new grounds in the study of Indian English writing. Any discussion on Indian English writing is bound to fall into the familiar trap of postcolonialism and the writers’ complicity in furthering the imperial discourse.


Reviewed by: Sanju Thomas
Bhagwandass Morwal

Bhagwandas Morwal is one of those rare Hindi writers who have consciously and continuously striven to extend the limits of their socio-creative oeuvre. He had burst on the Hindi literary scene with Kala Pahar and has, over the years, consolidated his position as a novelist with Babal Tere Desh Mein and Ret.


Reviewed by: Anup Beniwal