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Sharmistha Mohanty is a fiction writer and poet living in Mumbai. Her most recent work is Five Movements in Praise (Almost Island Books, 2013).
Oct 1, 2022 · In a favourite vignette, “Forest”, Mohanty reminds us of shifting landscapes – even landscapes that seem to have always been as they are now – and the beginning of a forest, that started ...
Apr 20, 2024 · Sharmistha Mohanty. Sharmistha Mohanty is the author of four works of prose, Book One, New Life, Extinctions, and Five Movements in Praise. She has also translated...
Feb 4, 2015 · Sharmistha Mohanty is the author of three works of fiction, Book One, New Life, and Five Movements in Praise. She has also translated a selection of Rabindranath Tagore’s prose works, Broken Nest and Other Stories .
- The Horse
- Sunset
- RTA
In the village unsold horses stand by the dozens in dark, small rooms. The hand that dusts them sometimes and lets in the sunlight also lets the dust fall on the ground. It would be too much work to remove all the horses and sweep the floor and put them back again. The dust swept off the horses falls below and grows in thickness, piles up over the ...
Every day something else sets over the subcontinent along with the sun. Today it is the crouched man, sullen and taciturn. Hundreds of horses have sprung from his hands. There is mud on his feet, mud on his fingers, his skin is withered from working with water and earth. Crouched, he travels towards his own extinction. He wants to whip the future w...
The word ‘rta’ occurs 450 times in the 1,008 hymns of the Rig Veda. It has no exact counterpart in a modern language. It is a kinetic word, a meaning field, expansive. Rta is the wide and free space where the cosmos has its being, where all things in the universe can dwell. The dawn begins its journey from the dwelling of rta, and moves along the p...
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Sharmistha Mohanty is the author of three works of fiction, Book One, New Life, and Five Movements in Praise. She has also translated a selection of Rabindranath Tagore’s prose works, Broken Nest and Other Stories.
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Founder-Editor – Sharmistha Mohanty. Sharmistha Mohanty is the author of three works of prose, Book One, New Life and Five Movements in Praise. Her work pushes the boundaries of fictional prose, moving it towards the prose poem.
