[Book extract] The CP of the present is more measured in his approach to the world, less welcoming of apocalyptic destinies.

Ranjit Hoskote on why poet CP Surendran is 'a suture for a sacred wound'

[Book extract] He bears witness to derelict polyphonies of affect, animates them into a condition of sayability, steering them towards what must be written.

Writing

The complex unpredictability of the Indian writer’s habitat

The Anglophone writer has been singled out for contempt as being somehow alienated or a traitor to the imagined umbilical continuities of Indianness.

The writer is a poet, cultural theorist, curator and author.

Ranjit Hoskote

The writer is a poet, cultural theorist, curator and author.

By Ranjit Hoskote