Reviews & Musings

  ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0912LQ87J  Publisher ‏ : ‎ Rubric Publishing Price: INR 275/- Gopal Lahiri's latest poetry collection has been divided into 7 separate sections – Voyages In, Voyages Out, Cityscape Silhouettes, Macrocosm, Haiku Series, and Micro Poems, Travel Diaries, and Pandemic and Resilience. In every section, his writing manages to hold your attention long after you have finished reading the book.  Lahiri is a prolific poet with close to 17 poetry collections to his credit. His works are beautiful imagery of his observations from life at large.   Gopal Lahiri's writing flows in the book in ebbs and tides. It makes you smile, think, cry, wish and sigh as you go through the poems.  Here I am alive in isolation,  breathing in soulless life   waiting for a new world. Lahiri's words are thought-provoking in ways where he questions a lot of things in parts. While some parts are like a gentle nudge where you want to pause and see things the way Lahiri wants you to

“Words and the music of words are closest to my heart.” – Jerry Pinto (Poet, Author, Translator) Team Kitaab is in conversation with award-winning writer, translator and poet Jerry Pinto where he speaks about his love for writing, his inspiration behind all his work and the changing scenes within the publishing industry.  Jerry Pinto is an award-winning writer and translator based in Mumbai. His works include Helen: The Life and Times of an H-Bomb (2006), which won the Best Book on Cinema Award at the 54th National Film Awards, Surviving Women (2000) and Asylum and Other Poems (2003). His first novel Em and the Big Hoom was published in 2012 and won The Hindu Literary Prize that year. It was also shortlisted for the Commonwealth Book Prize.