This is a selection from the work of one who has emerged as the finest and most challenging Indian poet in English today. Young, controversial, widely acclaimed in India and abroad, translated into many languages, strikingly different, Pritish Nandy has not only broken new ground but has also been, as Mulk Raj Anand points out, ‘the harbinger of the new Indian consciousness’ in his honesty of expression and compelling originality of  Language.