Description
A landmark book of poems. Amitabh’s is among the most reliable and authentic voices in contemporary Hindi poetry. His work maps the wider range of the moral, aesthetic and social concerns of our time in all their diversity and deeper reach. This is a long awaited anthology of his poems. It comprises in about three hundred pages 230 poems written between 2014 and 2022. It is published by Nibandh, an imprint of Three Essays Collective.
PRAISE FOR THE BOOK
A most important Hindi poet writing today.
—Mangalesh Dabral (2019)
Amitabh’s poems are about what we forget and keep forgetting. It is almost as though he was returning our lost thoughts to us. His poems, even when short, can read like stories, of tenderness, of violence. …In his poems is the grief of our times.
—Arvind Krishna Mehrotra
Light and darkness keep alternating in his poetry. Here one encounters great silences and incipient hope. Very few poets are able to reflect on their time as intensely, astutely and with such modesty.
—Jawari Mal Parakh
A strong, fully-formed poetic voice has emerged from the belly of great uncertainty. Amitabh Bachchan’s aesthetic expression is unclouded and unsentimental even though it remains firmly rooted in the landscape of sentiment. It is an emotional and political response to every shade of injustice around us and Hindi literature is doubtless richer for it.
—Annie Zaidi
With a feather touch against heavy-handed odds, Amitabh Bachchan reveals an acute, wry poetic vision. Amidst the pain and debris of time, he holds aloft an inimitable sense of love.
—Prasanta Chakravarty
Unsettling and lyrical, these poems are an astute moral compass of the new India. Their insights, compassion and music will leave you with a lingering heartache.
—Namit Arora
Amitabh’s combination of everyday musing, helplessness, hope and continuing fear make his poetry a testament for our times.
—Suvir Kaul
Without any hesitatiom one can say that he (Amitabh) has gradually emerged as our most guileless, honest and essential poetic voice. His simple, minimalist yet inventive diction maps the entire human landscape. One comes across the questions which can be avoided only at the cost of one’s humanity.
—Katyayani
Nobody has mapped these years so tellingly and so beautifully. Political poems sit comfortably with social vignettes and personal emotions that assume a shared universality.
—Nalini Taneja
