Here is a bunch of exceptionally powerful stories that work at many semantic planes and reveal the range of Moushumi Kandali's concerns as a writer. Moushumi deals boldly, yet suggestively with social and political questions. her handling of the erotic is mature, her symbolism fresh, her style enchantingly lyrical and profoundly meditative. Here is the new voice of Indian fiction, daring, philosophical, intensely poetic -- K. Satchidanandan, Sahitya Akademi Award winner This is the unspoken part of womanhood. this series of stories read like a mix of thrillers, poetry and song lyrics. Moushumi Kandali captures a side of the North-east that, while lushly rendered as remote and exotic, rings universal to the human condition, its suffering and survival. -- S. Mitra Kalita, Pulitzer Prize winner
