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Author: Shah Abdul Latif
Translator: Anju Makhija & Hari Dilgir
Sanjay Bhattacharyya
HB:81-89020-54-4
Price: 295
Pages: 296
Cover Design: Geeta Dharmarajan
2005
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Seeking the Beloved

Known as one of the greatest sufi works in history, Shah Abdul Latif's Shah Jo Risalo is a prayer, a cry for the beloved. Written more than 250 years ago, Latif's poetry is deeply rooted in the human experience of searching for the self – a self that is one with the nirakaar, the omnipresent, centered within yet diffuse as attar. Katha proudly presents the first ever English translation of the Risalo in India.

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Les murray (Bengali)
Author: Les Murray
Translator: Ms Enakshi Chatterjee
978-81-87649-59-5
Price: 65
Pages: 74
Cover painting: Anjum Singh
Cover Design: Geeta Dharmarajan
2007
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Les Murray (Hindi)
Author: Les Murray
Translator: Anamika  
978-81-87649-58-8
Price: 65
Pages: 74
Cover painting: Anjum Singh
Cover Design: Geeta Dharmarajan
2007
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Les Murray (Marathi)
Author: Les Murray
Translator: Hemant Divate
81-87649-60-1
Price: 65
Pages: 74

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Les Murray (Malayalam)
Author: Les Murray
Translator: Anita Thampi
978-81-87649-62-5
Price: 65
Pages: 74
Cover painting: Anjum Singh
Cover Design: Geeta Dharmarajan
2007
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Various authors
Translator: K S Subramanian
HB:81-89020-46-3
Price: 200
Pages: 160
Cover Design: Geeta Dharmarajan
2005
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Tamil New Poetry

Words translated. Thoughts in transit. Layered with dark humour and precise imagery, a collection of poems to plunge you into the core of meaning, Katha proudly presents its first anthology, tinted in every wash of life and dotted with the Sirissa trees and wailing Palms of the Tamil landscape. An art-tradition is living, breathing history, a contemporary past. Tamil Poetry traces its origin to thousands of years ago. Beautifully translated by Dr K S Subramanian, the anthology is the latest chapter in this history. Featuring a range of poets, from stalwarts like Na Pichamurthy to young artists like Kanimozhi, seeking a sun aflame as a “sandal bowl,” and a name that “does not respond/ To anyone's voice;” it brings together diverse voices united in their expertise.

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Author: Udaya Narayana Singh
Translator: Rizio Yohannan Raj
Sanjay Bhattacharyya
HB: 81-89020-57-9
Price: 200
Pages: 112
Cover painting: Sanjay Bhattacharyya
Cover Design: Geeta Dharmarajan
2006
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Second Person Singular

Second Person Singular is the poetic expression of the  epiphanic other-view of love and life that language presents to each individual. Udaya Narayana Singh’s original Maithili poems in this translation present the strange counterpoints that one gets from an involvement with language. They bring out the dialectical texture of the silent spaces in human relationships.

Shot through with ardour for the art of poetry and an exploration of the many moods of love in an unmistakably Indian idiom, the poet’s penchant for the miniature image and the powerful word endure in this volume.

Poet and linguist Dr Udaya Narayana Singh writes both in Maithili (under the pseudonym ‘Nachiketa’) and Bengali. Currently, he is the Director of the Central Institute of Indian Languages, Mysore.

TAMIL NEW POETRY

Words translated. Thoughts in transit. Layered with dark humour and precise imagery, a collection of poems to plunge you into the core of meaning. A must buy for all. - The Hindu

SECOND PERSON SINGULAR

…grammarian, linguist, translator, wordsmith, poet come together to celebrate an unbridled lust for written words… -Harmony Magazine