Sanchyita By Haku Shah

Hymns to deserts By Nand Kishore Acharya

“Desert, sand and void together constitute an extremity, both of existence and experience. To cope with them the language, even of poetry, requires a bareness, a reduction to the bones, as it were. Nand Kishore Acharya, a senior Hindi poet, is able to cope with the extremity since he is not an outsider or a chanced visitor to the sand dunes, but someone who is inside it