In our annual roundup of Indian Writing in English, GJV Prasad, our Contributing Editor, presents the best work of some of the significantly established poetic voices like Makarand Deshpande, Eunice de Souza, Arundhati Subrmaniam and Menka Shivdasani along with new emerging voices. His focus on poetry stems from the fact that poetry is his “first love, and it shows”.

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