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Arvind Krishna Mehrotra

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Arvind Krishna Mehrotra

India

Arvind Krishna Mehrotra lives in Dehra Dun, in the foothills of the Himalayas. He is the author of seven­ previous books of poetry and two collections of essays....

He is also the translator of The Absent Traveller: Prakrit Love Poetry (Penguin Classics, 2008), Songs of Kabir (NYRB Classics, 2011), and, with Sara Rai, of Vinod Kumar Shukla’s stories Blue Is Like Blue (HarperCollins India, 2019). His new collection of poems is Book of Rahim (Shearsman Books, 2023).

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Articles by Arvind Krishna Mehrotra

A pair of vintage storage trunks sitting on a sandy-colored, tiled floor
Photo by Sam Jotham Sutharson on Unsplash
Nothing unfinished is completed
By Vinod Kumar Shukla
As if I were arriving at the end of arriving.
Translated from Hindi by Arvind Krishna Mehrotra