Vol: 2 Issue: 1
February 2015
UNDERGROUND
FLOWERS
Bibhudatta Mohanty, poet and translator, has taught English for over a decade in a junior college in Puri. He has also served as the principal of reputed Anglo Indian schools in Kolkata during the past decade. Well published in international journals and anthologies, he has five volumes to his credit. His collections include Homing Birds, & The Ganga Flows On. Among the translations from Odiya are, The Song of the Blue Night (by Umakanta Mohapatra), The Hunting is Over Now (by Umakanta Mohapatra), Tarai Sairat(by Pitamber Tarai).
Our Contributors
Ankush Banerjee is a mental health professional based in Kochi, Kerala. An insatiable interest in art history, travel, poetry, literature and writing consumes his days and nights. But when he isn’t doing either, he can be found with his fishing gear near the shore, amassing a motley catch for himself and his cats. His first collection of poetry, As Essence of Eternity (Sahitya Akademi, Delhi) is scheduled to be published later this year. He blogs at: cogitoerigosum.wordpress.com.
RK Biswas is the author of a novel - "Culling Mynahs and Crows," Lifi Publications, New Delhi, and a book of short stories - "Breasts and Other Afflictions of Women," Authorspress, India. Her short fiction and poetry have appeared in journals worldwide, and she has won accolades and prizes for her work in India and abroad. Blog: http://www.rumjhumkbiswas.wordpress.com
Reena Prasad is a poet from India, now based in Sharjah. She has several poems published in English anthology collections (Change, Indus Valley, Love in Verses, Musings—a Mosaic, anthologies by Barry Mowles and Friends and Brian Wrixon’s anthologies, also in online journals: Carty’s Poetry Journal, Indian Ruminations, Indian Review and in online magazines such as Youth Ki Awaaz and Thanal Online. Her poems have found place among the winning entries in contests by Writer's Cafe, Ekphrasis India and Poets Corner. She is a contributor to many international journals like The Copperfield Review, First Literary Review-East, Poetry Quarterly, Angle Journal etc. She is the I.C.O.P. Poet of the Year 2014 at the Annual Destiny Poet's I.C.O.P Awards U.K. She is also one of the editors of The Significant Anthology due to be released in 2015.
K.Srilata is a poet and fiction writer. Srilata is a Professor of English at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Madras. Srilata was a writer-in-residence at the University of Stirling, at Sangam house and at the Yeonhui Art Space in Seoul. Her debut novel Table for Four, long listed in 2009 for the Man Asian literary prize, was published by Penguin. Srilata has three collections of poems, Writing Octopus (Authorspress, 2013), Arriving Shortly (Writers Workshop, 2011) and Seablue Child (Brown Critique, 2002). She also co-edited the anthology Rapids of a Great River: The Penguin Book of Tamil Poetry. Her work has been featured in The BloodAxe Anthology of Indian Poets, The Harper Collins Book of English Poetry, Wasafiri, Recours au Poeme, Caravan, Fulcrum, The Little Magazine, Kavya Bharati and in two anthologies published by the Sahitya Akademi. Srilata has been a participating writer at the Seoul International Writers Festival, the Hindu Lit for Life, Kala Ghoda, Hyderabad Literary festival and the Poetry with Prakriti festivals.
Usha Akella is a poet and a cultural ambassador for Austin. She has produced a musical. She is the founder of the Poetry Caravan in Greenburgh/White plains and Austin. The caravan provides poetry readings and workshops to people at a disadvantage in women's shelters, senior homes and hospitals.
KK Mathew is an allopathic doctor and scientist. He writes in English and Malayalam.He has published six books of poems in English. He has also published spiritual treatises both in English and Malayalam. He lives in Kayamkulam, Kerala.
Ranjani Neriya first published when she was 19, in The Illustrated Weekly of India then edited by C.R.Mandy. Her poems have appeared in many Indian magazines and newspapers like Times of India, Debonair, Femina, The Illustrated Weekly of India, The Indian P.E.N., etc. In the US they have been featured in Beloit poetry journal, XCP(cross cultural poetics), Midwest poetry review, Many mountains moving, The MacGuffin, Runes, The Aurorean, Clover- a literary rag, The listening eye, etc. Born in Mangalore, Karnataka, she lived many years in Mumbai, before settling in the US. Her first book of poems BATIK was published in 1994 and the second one PROMISE - A LIFE -was published by Leadstart, Mumbai, in October 2013. Neriya is presently into her 80's.
