Pickles & Prayers  (Hardcover, Sampriti Bhattacharyya)

Readers of this book will catch a glimpse of ‘Komorebi’, (also the title of a poem in this book), which is the Japanese word for the sunlight streaming through shades and branches of the trees. Pickles and Prayers by Sampriti Bhattacharyya is a perfect rendition of an indomitable poetic spirit, sincere political arbour, unusual psychological endeavours and novel experimental patterns of the genre. The capability of the poet to turn the mundane experiences into deeply philosophical musings only to mingle the dreary and the divine, the modern and the ancient, is commendable. Sampriti’s breadth of vision is astonishing and takes one to an empyrean height. Fragrance of glamorous English arrests instantly. Irresistible, ineluctable and inimitable.