Full Circle: Ahlawat Gunjan on the Wondrous World of Book Cover Design
Head of design at Penguin Random House India Ahlawat Gunjan discusses the art of book covers, the collaboration of literature and design, of sales and inspiration, and the magic process making it all come together. By Varud Gupta
Other Words and Inner Worlds
Jhumpa Lahiri’s Whereabouts is a novel of contradictions and duality, straddling an oppressive loneliness and a contented solitude, reclusiveness and intimacy, emptiness and fulfilment. By Sohel Sarkar
Poetry by John Copley Alter: ‘In the proximity / of other gods—other sutras— / we muttered our creed—you // pecking / away at your manual typewriter— / carbon copies of personal letters / home—to the diaspora—we // noodling on the keyboard of happiness’