Here for the first time, is a representative 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 also been, as Mulk Raj Anand points out in his introductory epistle, ‘the harbinger of the new Indian consciousness’ in his honesty of expression and compelling originality of language.