Poet and diplomat Abhay K's new book-length poem 'Monsoon', connecting India and Madagascar, is a poetic nudge on climate action. It borrows the messenger poem tradition to speak of love, longing, ecology, myths, and history to drive home a pertinent message of our times.
Breaking its silence, the Akademi took to pacifying the authors who accused it of not speaking out against the killings of writers and rationalists besides on incidents like Dadri lynching and ink attack on Sudheendra Kulkarni.