Offer Him All Things Charred Burned & Cindered

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>About the book</strong></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>He is a god an ideal a magnet for the women who flock to him. They are scribes editors messengers scholars. Some are warriors some run households while others run kingdoms and they are all involved in varying degrees with him the god Murugan. They are desperately in love with him. He too is equally hopelessly in love with some of them. Between the lover and the beloved is a mutual give-and-take of flirtation seduction wooing meeting parting pining and surrender. And always a straining to get on with writing - a central motif in this collection of sharp-edged sutras and mellow poetry. A play of words and ideas united by the theme of longing and the articulation of that longing this is an emotionally charged and deeply sensual collection of love poems.</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>About the Author</strong></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Kala is the author of two books of poetry </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>He Is Honey Salt and the Most Perfect Grammar</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> (2016) and </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Offer Him All Things Charred Burned & Cindered</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> (2018); and two novels </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Mahasena</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> (2018) and </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Theivanai</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> (2024) part of her in-progress Murugan Trilogy. She lives in Bangalore with her family of humans and non-humans Paru Gauri Sathyavak and Totoro.</span></p>