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  Cosmos in a Crucible by Ajanta Paul

  ₹350.00

  In Cosmos in a Crucible, Ajanta Paul presents a luminous collection of sixteen short stories that transform the mundane rituals of urban Indian life—from the search for a new apartment to the sensory memories of a family recipe book—into profound meditations on the human condition. With the precision of a poet and the keen eye of a sociologist, Paul explores the “microphysics of power” within domestic and social spheres, capturing characters as they navigate the delicate intersections of tradition, displacement, and ethical choice. Whether depicting the spectral lingering of grief in “Flat-Hunting” or the visceral terror of communal history in “The Blue Kameez,” these stories move with a quiet narrative economy that culminates in startling “epistemic jolts,” forcing readers to re-evaluate the boundaries between the ordinary and the extraordinary. This debut collection is an essential read for those seeking literary fiction that blends intellectual rigor with deep emotional resonance, marking the arrival of a sophisticated voice in contemporary Indian literature.

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  Earth Elegies by Ajanta Paul

  ₹250.00

  Ajanta Paul’s Earth Elegies celebrates the mystery and beauty of nature while decrying its despoliation. In their focus on environmental concerns, many poems are ecopoetic through and through. The collection also draws attention to subtle moments of appreciating nature as well as to our emotional responses to places. At the same time, ecological awareness threads through the collection. Such interconnections surface in the redolent line “of sap and sapience” from the poem “A Late Flowering.” Here the poet implies that sap is sapience. Some poems in Earth Elegies address non-human beings as communicative subjects. “Talismanic Tree,” for instance, foregrounds the felt encounters between people and plants. The speaker retreats into the “natural, capacious arms. / Our safe and loving anchorage!” To be certain, there is a lexicon for touch—hard, soft, rough, smooth, slick, tickling—but also the idea of being moved, affected, or impacted positively. As Margaret Atwood writes in no uncertain terms, ‘Touch comes before sight, before speech. It is the first language and the last, and it always tells the truth.” Ajanta Paul’s poetry engages touch in both senses: of skin-to-skin contact with trees but also of the encounters with the arboreal world that transform us profoundly…John Charles Ryan

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