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May 16, 2024 | 
frontline.thehindu.com | K. Srilata |Neera Chandhoke |Vaishna Roy
If there is such a person in this world as a writerly writer, surely that must be Alice Munro, queen of short stories. Her passing feels like a personal loss to so many of us, her readers, simply because it is. With her gone, who will help us unravel the mystery that is a human being? Reading a Munro story is an act of deep intimacy. It calls for slow time and close reading.
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May 2, 2024 | 
frontline.thehindu.com | K. Srilata |Anand Mishra |Saba Naqvi |Paranjoy Guha Thakurta
In an opinion piece for The New Indian Express titled “Politics of new poetry and the Salesman poet” (April 2, 2024), C.P. Surendran bemoans the “explosion” of poetry in present-day India. He speaks of the spurt in online publishing, in poetry readings, and in the publication of anthologies that include rather than exclude.
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Apr 26, 2024 | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Amey Tirodkar |Suhrid Sankar Chattopadhyay |Ismat Ara |K. Srilata
Anshuman Deshmukh, 40, is the secretary of the Akola District Congress Committee. He has a political legacy that spans three generations, but over the past 20 years, he and others in his extended family have been silent spectators in all Lok Sabha elections. This time, however, it is different. Anshuman has thrown himself into the battle and is vigorously handling the campaign for Dr Abhay Patil, Congress candidate from Akola.
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Feb 8, 2024 | 
frontline.thehindu.com | K. Srilata |Manohar Shetty |C.P. Chandrasekhar |Vivek Narayanan
In her sixth book of poetry, K. Srilata, a former professor of literature at IIT Madras, interweaves family, history, and contemporary times. It is mainly about “three women used to small places”—the poet herself, her mother, and her grandmother, who live in a single-room home:the three of us,rough diamonds stuckin mines that ran too deepto catch the light. Three Women in a Single Room HouseBy K.
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Jan 14, 2024 | 
thewire.in | K. Srilata
The following is an excerpt from poet K. Srilata’s book Three Women in a Single-Room House published by Sahitya Akademi. A Poem Entirely in BracketsThis is a poem that shouldn’t be written about the thing we don’t want to remember. And so it has become a poem entirely in brackets.
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Nov 16, 2023 | 
thehindu.com | K. Srilata
For all those who love A.K. Ramanujan’s work, for all those who walk around with lines from his poems and translations in their heads, Soma is an invaluable resource and a delight. Edited by scholar Guillermo Rodriguez and Ramanujan’s son and science writer Krishna Ramanujan, this book brings together the poet’s mostly unpublished ‘Soma’ poems, numbering 22.
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Oct 5, 2023 | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Ranjit Hoskote |K. Srilata |Vaishna Roy |Anand Mishra
In Icelight, Ranjit Hoskote thinks by way of the heart, which is, of course, how good poetry is made. A deeply felt reflection on the ecological crisis that is at once spiritual and political, this collection of poems, Hoskote’s eighth, bears witness to the slow death of our planet. IcelightBy Ranjit HoskotePenguin Hamish HamiltonPages: 128Price: Rs.399What does it mean to be human at a time when the world as we know it is ending, to see that “the valley into which/ you’re rappelling/ is you”?
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Jun 18, 2023 | 
nationalheraldindia.com | K. Srilata
"I wrote up a whole new curriculum that would suit my needs. For eight years, I didn’t talk to anybody about it. Two years ago, I submitted this curriculum for a conference... It was published"Autism is poorly understood and those suffering from this disability tend to be brushed aside to tiny silos such as ‘special schools’ and the private space of the home in a world that is overwhelmingly ableist.
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Jun 18, 2023 | 
nationalheraldindia.com | K. Srilata
A conversation with Gayathri, who is autistic, excerpted from K. Srilata's book 'This Kind of Child', to mark Autistic Pride Day, 18 JulyDisability is a no-man’s land. Mainstream medicine, by its very nature, is focused on the ‘treatable’ and the ‘curable’. Chronic illnesses, pain and disabilities are often impossible to ‘treat’ or ‘fix’.
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Apr 6, 2023 | 
thehindu.com | K. Srilata
Naveen Kishore’s Mother Muse Quintet is a moving ode to the inevitable passage of time, to individual memory as it attempts to mark this passage, to the love that is careful remembering and to the loss that is forgetting. Organised as quintets that serve as a mood-map, the verses circle back to the poet’s relationship with his mother and to the intimate and ordinary magic of the memories they share. There is a certain crispness to the edges of these memories that defy fuzziness.
