So excited to see three short stories from Assam, from two languages — Assamese and Bengali — in this beautiful collection of short fiction — Redolent Rush: Contemporary Indian Short Fiction in Translation, presented by Kiriti Sengupta and edited by Somudranil Sarkar and Sheenjini Ghosh — Bipasha Bora’s Ka Sinsa’s Piglet, translated by yours truly, and Nandita Devi’s No More Dauks in the Wetlands and Debabrata Choudhury’s Abbajaan’s Bones, both translated by Anindita Kar.

Published by Hawakal.

Highly recommended!

The book this week recommended by Dibyajyoti Sarma is Salman Rushdie’s Victory City

Published by Hamish Hamilton (Penguin Random House); typeset in Adobe Caslon Pro; printed at Thomson Press

The book this week recommended by Dibyajyoti Sarma is Vivek Narayanan’s After

Published by HarperCollins Publishers; typeset in Adobe Caslon Pro; printed at Thomson Press

The book this week recommended by Dibyajyoti Sarma is Elegy for the East: A Story of Blood and Broken Dreams by Dhrubajyoti Borah

Published by Thornbird (Niyogi Books); printed at Niyogi Offset, New Delhi

The book this week recommended by Dibyajyoti Sarma is Ratno Dholi: The Best Stories of Dhumketu, translated from the Gujarati by Jenny Bhat

Published by Harper Perennial (HarperCollins Publishers); typeset in Centaur MT Std at Manipal Technologies; printed at Replika Press 

 Gopal Lahiri reviews Evening with a Sufi by Afsar Mohammad in Kitaab.

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Here is a poet who writes in the node between the most personal moment and the undeniably universal one. There is a fierceness, a beauty, a joyful spirit in his work and he creates pieces of engaging resistance and poignant accuracy. Clarity and candidness are his watchwords, his voice is not always one of grandeur or pomposity. The poet summons such feelings in his poems even as they resist, contain, and try not to succumb to them. That makes it all the more moving.

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Read the full review here. 

https://kitaab.org/2023/02/02/book-review-evening-with-a-sufi-translated-from-telugu-by-afsar-mohammad-and-shamala-gallagher/