“palash krishna mehrotra”

  Palash Krishna Mehrotra writes about prostitutes, cross dressers, murderers, drug addicts, students and stalkers, portraying their perversions and vulnerabilities with equal insight, taking us deep into the dark and seamy soul of India. ... More

The Transfiguring Places is the author’s first volume to appear in thirteen years. Many of the poems in it are directly personal, but whether they dwell on the death of a parent or an ancestral house, they are marked by the same transparency of language and technical assurance that have been a fea... More

Arvind Krishna Mehrotra, a well-known poet, translator, and critic-historian, has here put together an unusually sensitive selection of fine verse in English by his best contemporaries. Complete with insightful biographical and critical introductions to each poet, this is the definitive anthology of... More

‘They read beautifully. The translations are witty, terse, spare, memorable. At last the Gathasaptasati has found a translator.’—A.K. Ramanujan The Gathasaptasati is perhaps the oldest extant anthology of poetry from South Asia, containing our very earliest examples of secular v... More