Sharmistha Mohanty

Sharmistha Mohanty is the author of three works of fiction: Book One, New Life, and Five Movements in Praise. Her most recent work is a collection of poems, The Gods Came Afterwards, from which these poems are taken. She is founder-editor of the online journal Almost Island.

The Gods Came Afterwards by Sharmistha Mohanty

Summer 2020
Sharmistha Mohanty

New Delhi. Speaking Tiger Books. 2019. 88 pages. CLASSICAL INDIAN LITERATURE (religious as well as secular, in Sanskrit but also Prakrit, Pali, and Tamil) continues to inspire contem...
Two Poems

Winter 2019
Sharmistha Mohanty

Photo: Kordula Vahle/Pixabay * Granaries as long and winding as the shores from which we look at the lit ocean, behind us the fertile land, rivers coming to this sea, silt behind us thousa...
Five Movements in Praise by Sharmistha Mohanty

September 2013
Sharmistha Mohanty

Mumbai. Almost Island. 2013. ISBN 9788192129518 In three books published over a period of eighteen years, Sharmistha Mohanty has been showing, with increasing consistency and verve, that there is mor...