“These poems, though mostly short, cover vast ranges of territory, of memory and displacement. Skilfully told, their power compressed, the stories these poems relate strike home. This is a stirringly evocative, deeply felt book.”
Adil Jussawalla
“Vanita’s poems and translations in The Broken Rainbow are an astounding testament to how the most intimate vocabulary for describing the closest of our affections (her poems refer to her wife, her son, her friend, her mother, her uncle) and for inhabiting the most familiar of our geographies (her poems straddle Montana, Gurgaon, Binsar, Lucknow, Delhi), may emerge not only from some vaguely defined interior, some mysterious inner well of our expression alone, but in that charismatic encounter with the canvas of the historical, the inherited, the studied.”
Akhil Katyal, Hindustan Times
“Ruth’s poems are like splinters of the shattered rainbow, a spray of distracted colours, a melange of variegated inheritances . . . The poets, professors and other activists of queer culture constantly animate Ruth’s poetic landscape with their griefs and dreams.”
Akshaya Kumar, The Tribune
The Broken Rainbow
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