Struggle. Revolution. Change. Are these words simply meant for chanting or do they emerge as real agents of social justice in a country where the divides stand taller than multi-storied shopping malls and sky-licking urban ghettos?
Footprints in the Bajra is a novel about the dark realities that even today hound India, a thriving modern democracy in the eye of the world; about a young Maoist recruit named Muskaan from Bihar who meets Nora, a student-activist from New Delhi. The story of Muskaan’s transition in belief and action unfolds in this work that delights readers and travels with ease across idioms and identities to engage with the personal interaction of the author with popular cultures, histories and myths.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Nabina Das has published her poetry and short fiction in a wide range of journals and anthologies in North America, India and Australia. She has won second prizes in the prestigious 2008 All India Poetry Contest organised by HarperCollins-India and Open Space, and the 2009 Prakriti Foundation open contest.
A former Assistant Metro Editor with The Ithaca Journal, Ithaca, NY, and journalist and media person in India for about ten years, she has also published essays, reviews and news features in both India and USA. Currently, Nabina is Editor (India) with the literary journal Danse Macabre (USA).
Her poem, Othello's Path, came out in Asia Writes last February 20.
(More information about the book HERE.)
Footprints in the Bajra is a novel about the dark realities that even today hound India, a thriving modern democracy in the eye of the world; about a young Maoist recruit named Muskaan from Bihar who meets Nora, a student-activist from New Delhi. The story of Muskaan’s transition in belief and action unfolds in this work that delights readers and travels with ease across idioms and identities to engage with the personal interaction of the author with popular cultures, histories and myths.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Nabina Das has published her poetry and short fiction in a wide range of journals and anthologies in North America, India and Australia. She has won second prizes in the prestigious 2008 All India Poetry Contest organised by HarperCollins-India and Open Space, and the 2009 Prakriti Foundation open contest.
A former Assistant Metro Editor with The Ithaca Journal, Ithaca, NY, and journalist and media person in India for about ten years, she has also published essays, reviews and news features in both India and USA. Currently, Nabina is Editor (India) with the literary journal Danse Macabre (USA).
Her poem, Othello's Path, came out in Asia Writes last February 20.
(More information about the book HERE.)
