Meticulously researched and quite, quite unforgettable – Anita Nair brings alive the 17th century. It’s not just about the language and the story, but also as much about the landscape which she describes to the fullest which add an element of mystery. Fascinatingly...
Nair’s prose unfolds like an Ang Lee film, as a vast geographic panorama sweeps in front of the reader’s eye, frame by exquisite frame. The individual sentences are zen-like in their balance and poise, more beautiful for the absence of extra words. Nair brilliantly...
Anita Nair’s first book of poems Malabar Mind is impossible to get away from. The Hindu Literary...
Anita has a remarkable body language of variegated repetitions which comes through well as a narrative even in very short poems giving a local habitation and a name to passing thoughts. The Sunday...
…poetry that grapples, twists and turns with contemporary existence. Malabar Mind is an interesting collection, to be read with pleasure and occasionally delight. The Sunday...
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