Extinctions

<p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>About the Book</strong></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>There are things on this subcontinent-rituals objects gestures-that have existed for centuries but are now vulnerable dying at the edge of our lives. Extinctions catches them in movement as they fade as they set. It looks at them variously through factual observation or historical gaze or a prose poem paying tribute. These are individual memories merged with the memories of a civilisation. Sometimes the two become one. The attempt is not only to look back but also to consider where we are. And so Extinctions creates an encounter that lights up both the long enduring and the new. Following the ridge of regrets fate thoughts that came too late a future appears even of the past. Untamed animate time becomes many and landscapes continue to be formed not naming themselves yet not conscious of being an island or a continent. On the blackened iron scales in the marketplace a thousand years equals today.</span></p><p><br></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>About the Author</strong></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Sharmistha Mohanty is the author of three works of prose </span><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Book One New Life and Five Movements in Praise</em><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> and a book of poems </span><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>The Gods Came Afterwards</em><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>. She has also translated a selection of Tagore's fiction Broken Nest and Other Stories. Her work has been published in journals across the world including </span><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Poetry Granta World Literature Today The Caravan</em><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> and the </span><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Chinese Jintian</em><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>. Mohanty is the founder-editor of the online literature journal </span><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Almost Island</em><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> and the initiator of the Almost Island Dialogues an annual international writers meet held in New Delhi.</span></p>