Kalpana Raina

Apr 4, 2024 | wordswithoutborders.org | Kalpana Raina |Silvia Arazi |Tobias Carroll |Susan Harris

As the plane landed in Srinagar, my fellow passengers craned their necks to see the snow-clad mountains that wrapped around the city. I sat still, contemplating and planning the next few days of my trip. I was coming back to my ancestral home and the city of my birth after forty-eight years, but not as a tourist. My only agenda was to visit downtown Srinagar and locate the house that my mother and uncle grew up in.

Mar 28, 2024 | wordswithoutborders.org | Tobias Carroll |Kalpana Raina |Saneh Sangsuk |Jackie Thomae

From Deep Vellum | The Understory by Saneh Sangsuk, translated from the Thai by Mui Poopoksakul | Fiction | 196 pages | ISBN 9781646052752 | US$17.95What the publisher says: “The lovable, yarn-spinning monk Luang Paw Tien, now in his nineties, is the last person in his village to bear witness to the power and plenitude of the jungle before agrarian and then capitalist life took over his community.

Mar 6, 2024 | newsbreak.com | Kalpana Raina

Two men say they were each robbed of over $30,000 after going to the same bar on different nights

Mar 6, 2024 | lithub.com | Kalpana Raina

Growing up I was aware that my uncle, Hari Krishna Kaul, was a short story writer, a playwright, and somewhat of a celebrity in his hometown of Srinagar. That was enough for me and I never attempted to actually read anything he had written. I lived abroad and could not read Kashmiri, the language in which he wrote, although I spoke it quite fluently. It was only in 2009, after Kaul’s passing and after I had spent more time in India, that I started to get a sense of his literary achievements.