Appreciation: OUTLANDISH! IMAGINATIVE! EXTRAORDINARY!Perfect Tangerine is perfect material for a Wes Anderson movie! I loved it! INNOVATIVE…INSIGHTFUL…INTERESTING…Perfect Tangerine is a sure page turner! I thoroughly enjoyed reading it! Sam Mukherjee, a man of many words (mid-day.com)

“Gandhar has messed with identity and time in a Puckish and magical manner…. Like in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, there is a primary motivation to lose one’s individuality and deconstruct reality. Gandhar has done that with excellence while merging the maple with the tulsi leaf…. classic.”

There are many lines and moments in K. Gandhar Chakravarty’s Kolkata Dreams that underscore the fact these poems do indeed reside in multiple landscapes, in that world between the East and West, and oftentimes simultaneously. This is a terrain where gods walk the streets and think human thoughts and do human deeds.

“Laid out against the horizontal landscape of the page, from the very beginning these poems demand from the reader a reorientation, and set out a goal to teach us how to read differently — not only the poems but also the world. What is beautiful and successful here is the way Doyali Islam takes small moments and gives to them an incredible, sometimes aching, heft..

Bhaswati Ghosh’s Victory Colony, 1950, is a portrait of resilience and a testament to humanity. The novel set in eastern India in the aftermath of the partition is essentially the story of refugees. But it is also much more than that. It is a tale of finding home, warmth and love in the most adverse of conditions. Bereft of the home they left behind…