From the Author of Illiterate Heart (winner of the PEN Open Book Prize) , a brilliant new collection of poems treading themes of migration, war, dislocation, conflict, lo  (+)

You are the drop and the ocean.

You are kindness, you are anger, You are sweetness, you are poison.

Do not make me more disheartened.

You are the chamber  (+)

When love beckons to you follow him

Though his ways are hard and steep.

And when his wings enfold you, yield to him,

Though the sword hidden among his pi  (+)

‘Listen carefully,

Neither the Vedas Nor the Qur’an Will teach you this:

Put the bit in its mouth,

The saddle on its back,

Your foot   (+)

'Listen carefully,

Neither the Vedas Nor the Qur’an Will teach you this:

Put the bit in its mouth,

The saddle on its back,

Y  (+)

Honoured at a public function when he was a mere boy of eleven with the title 'Bharati' (one blessed by Saraswati, the Goddess of Learning), C. Subramania Bharati (1882-19  (+)