Mani Rao, Priya Sarukkai Chabria & Ravi Shankar

Mani Rao is a poet, translator and independent scholar. Her poetry collections include Sing to Me, Echolocation and Ghostmasters. She has two books in translation from Sanskrit including Bhagavad Gita as a poem, and Kalidasa for the 21st Century Reader. Her latest book Living Mantra – Mantra, Deity and Visionary Experience Today is an anthropology of mantra-experience among tantric practitioners in south India.

 

Priya Sarukkai Chabria is an award-winning translator, poet and writer acclaimed for her radical aesthetics. Her books include works of speculative fiction, literary non-fiction, poetry collections, and translations from Classical Tamil. She has written several books, including Not Springtime Yet, and Generation 14.

 

Ravi Shankar is a Pushcart-prize winning poet, author, editor, translator, and professor. He has authored and edited over fifteen books and chapbooks of poetry, including the Many Uses of Mint: New and Selected Poems: 1998-2018; Language for a New Century and Deepening Groove. Translated into over 12 languages, Shankar has taught at esteemed institutions like Columbia University, Fairfield University, the City University of Hong Kong and the University of Sydney.

Stories by the author:

‘Drape me in his scent’: Female Sexuality and Devotion in Andal, the Goddess