Join us on 25th January, Sunday, from 5 pm to 7 pm, for the launch of books by Ankush Banerjee, Babitha Marina Justin, and Salini Vineeth, published by Red River.
We’re excited to unveil three unique books and to have an engaging discussion about these books and their themes – myth, memory, resilience, and gender identity.
Field Notes on Kindness by Ankush Banerjee is a collection of poems that are inspired from memories, anecdotes, and characters in the family, but recast them with an eye for detail and an attitude of pure wonder.
The Way Madmen Smell by Babitha Marina Justin is a collection of ten stories that move between the real, the unreal, and the surreal, weaving themes of love, loss, memory, betrayal, and resilience.
The Tree, The Well & the Drag Queen by Salini Vineeth is a novella that blends folklore, myth, and magic with a contemporary exploration of gender identity as it follows a queer person’s quest for freedom and authenticity.
We cordially invite you to an engaging literary discussion as we celebrate these three books!
About the Authors:
Ankush Banerjee is a Kochi-based poet, educator, book reviewer, and research scholar in masculinity studies. His work appears in numerous print and online platforms. This is his second book of poems.
Babitha Marina Justin is a writer and visual artist who moves easily between a paintbrush and a pen. Her poetry lingers on memory, gender, and the small intimacies of everyday life, with a voice that can be tender one moment and uncompromising the next. She has written nine books, including three poetry collections, Of Fireflies, Guns and the Hills (2015), I Cook My Own Feast (2019), and Forty-Five Shades of Brown (2023). She also co-edited salt, pepper and silver linings: celebrating our grandmothers (2019), a tribute to resilience and inheritance.
Salini Vineeth is a fiction writer and translator. She worked as an engineer for ten years before moving to full-time writing in 2019. Since then, she has published five books — Lost Edges (novel, 2023), Magic Square (novella, 2020), Everyday People (short story collection, 2019), and travel guides for Hampi and Badami. She has also translated four books from English to Malayalam. She is the fiction editor of Mean Pepper Vine, a quarterly literary magazine. salinivineeth.in
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