Gopal Lahiri is a bilingual poet, critic, editor, writer and translator with 29 books published, including eight solo/jointly edited books. His poetry is also published across various anthologies as well as in eminent journals of India and abroad. His poems are translated in 16 languages.
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He has been nominated for Pushcart Prize for poetry in 2021. He is the recipient of the Poet of the Year Award in Destiny Poets, UK, 2016, Setu Excellence Award, 2020, Pittsburgh, US and Indology Life-Time Achievement award, West Bengal, India. His latest collection of poems ‘Alleys are Filled with Future Alphabets.’ has received wide acclaim. and recently he has received First Jayanta Mahapatra National Award, 2024 for his contribution in Indian English Writing.
They are asleep now and silent. with two sharp cries the yellow bird flies away, feathers begin to fall into the world below, slowly, one after another. they are too many to count.
These drifts and turns, I suppose, a revolution, a transformation, they are close against my heart, You must flow and then anchor, somewhere in the haze, I realize the life.
Pancham: The Urban Timbre (Part 5) As Rajesh Khanna started enjoying the superstardom, he discovered that lip-syncing songs on screen was one of his forte. In a way, he was repeating…
Dolphin We listen to the crow cawing. I and Jhunu. There are no other birds, only a crow on the branch of the berry tree. We…
Pancham: The Urban Timbre (Part 9) A few photographs to commemorate Rahul Dev Burman. In his short and rich career as a music director, Rahul has worked with almost all the…
Beside The New Mosque By success, I mean paradise. Dwellers of paradise find absolution from their daily sins on a daily basis. That is why, to me, the truly…
Zarina Zarina was on the way to the shop where she worked; I was driving to my office; after much insistence, she stepped into my car…
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