In the forests of Tulasi, Jani unravels her plaitsButter in hand,Chakrapani massages her head‘My Jani has no one’Having said that, God pours the waterJani tells everybody‘My dear friend is bathing me’ We do not need…
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GREATEST MARATHI SHORT STORIES (2025)
The 28 stories in The Greatest Marathi Stories Ever Told represent some of the finest short fiction in Marathi literature. Selected and edited by writer and translator Ashutosh Potdar, this collection features established literary masters…
THE SACRED BRIDE (2024)
AtSome pointYour relationshipWith GodWillBecome like thisNext time you meet Him in the forest Or on a crowded city street There won’t be anymore“Leaving.”That is,God will climb intoYour pocket.You will simply just takeYourselfAloneHafez In the quest…
CRY FOR THE BELOVED (IN THREE VOLUMES 2023-24)
Poetry of Shah Abdul Latif, from the Shah Jo Risalo. Shah Abdul Latif was born in Hala, Sindh, in the 18th century. His lifetime was witness to many historical events, but he had little interest…
ONLY THE SOUL KNOWS HOW TO SING (2023)
Poetry of Kamala Das. Kamala Das is noted for her honest poems and other writings that cover a wide range of issues. Her taboo-breaking work explores themes of love and betrayal, the corporeal and the…
LOVE, PABLO NERUDA (2023)
Poems from the film Il Postino. Pablo Neruda (1904-1973) was probably the greatest and certainly the most prolific of twentieth-century Latin American poets. He brought out his first collection at the age of seventeen, and…
sacred voices (2023 & 2024)
Several evenings of mystical poetry from the East and West. Sacred Voices – An Evening of Mystical Poetry is a devised theatre piece of handpicked poems about the divine reflections of Saints, martyrs, and modern…
divine leela (2023)
O Mother, Your sacred limbs precede the earth,So say the silent sages. They are unable to sayanything else, and Your word now comes to meas this silent state, and reverberates here. Narayana Guru (1854 –…
NO TIME TO REHEARSE: EVERY NIGHT IS OPENING NIGHT
The Poetry of Wislawa Szymborska “If you want the world in a nutshell,” a Polish critic remarked, “try Szymborska.” Nobel Prize winner Wisława Szymborska draws us in with her unexpected, unassuming humour. In Szymborska’s view…
IN THE PRESENCE OF ABENCE
Adapted from ‘IN THE PRESENCE OF ABSENCE’ by Mahmoud Darwish In the Presence of Absence (Fī Hadrat al-Ghiyāb) was published in the original Arabic in 2006. As with every work Darwish published in the last…
