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.
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...
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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...
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...