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Sukrita's new book, 'Vanishing Words', accommodates a multiplicity of voices and perspectives.

The 'Penguin Book of Indian Poets', edited by Jeet Thayil, must be judged for what it excludes as much as for what it includes.

Nitoo Das’s New Collection of Poetry Crowbite Is Located in the Matrix of Caste and Class This weekends Verse Affairs looks at the poets use of crows not only as metaphors but also as the alphabets or graphemes of a new language. Photo: Denise Johnson/Unsplash About three-fourth through Nitoo Das’s new collection of poetry,  Crowbite (Red River, 2020), we come upon a poem titled, “Waterfall in March, Sohra”. Sohra is another name for Cherrapunji, a town in Meghalaya, and ...