And even now/when years have passed/love has nothing to say writes Vinay Dharwarker in his poem Waking, included in this anthology. Nevertheless, poets continue to address the issue of love, looking for novel and original ways to beat clichés. In Confronting Love, Indian poets writing in English try to make sense of this emotion.
Arundhathi Subramaniam
Arundhathi Subramaniam is the award-winning author of eleven books of poetry and prose. Widely translated and anthologised, her last volume of poetry, When God Is a Traveller was the Season Choice of the Poetry Book Society, shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize. She is the recipient of various prizes and fellowships, including the inaugural Khushwant Singh Prize, the Raza Award for Poetry, the Zee Indian Women’s Award for Literature, the International Piero Bigongiari Prize in Italy, the Homi Bhabha Fellowship, the Charles Wallace Fellowship, among others. She has worked over the years as poetry editor, curator and critic. As prose writer, her books include The Book of Buddha, the bestselling biography of a contemporary mystic, Sadhguru: More Than a Life and most recently, Adiyogi: The Source of Yoga(co-authored with Sadhguru). As editor, her most recent book is the acclaimed anthology of Bhakti poetry, Eating God.
Arundhathi Subramaniam
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