On the occasion of World Poetry Day, celebrating something rare, something unique, something inspiring — as one of Assam's beloved poet, Jiban Narah, gets a Penguin treatment. 

The Yellow Metaphor, translated by Anindita Kar, brings together a judicious selection of Narah's work (written from 1990 to 2023) — his words, his keen sense of colour, his connection to the land and it people — everything faithfully rendered into English by Kar's flawless translation.

Read the book; witness the best of Assamese poetry. 

Read some extracts here: https://amp.scroll.in/article/1090485/the-trees-grow-at-night-as-a-mans-life-shortens-in-the-dark-assamese-poems-of-displacement

Read a review here: https://asianreviewofbooks.com/the-yellow-metaphor-poems-from-assam-by-jiban-narah/

Get the book here: https://www.amazon.in/Yellow-Metaphor-Contemporary-Translation-North-East/dp/0143471678/