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Arundhathi Subramaniam
Arundhathi Subramaniam is an award-winning Indian poet. Her recent book, Love Without a Story, is forthcoming internationally from Bloodaxe Books in November 2020. Widely translated and anthologised, her previous volume, When God is a Traveller, was the Season Choice of the Poetry Book Society, shortlisted for the TS Eliot Prize. She writes on culture and spirituality, and has worked as poetry editor, cultural curator and critic. Her prose work includes The Book of Buddha, the bestselling biography of a contemporary mystic, Sadhguru: More Than a Life, and as editor, the Penguin anthology of sacred poetry, Eating God. Other awards include the inaugural Khushwant Singh Prize, the Raza Award for Poetry, the Zee Women’s Award for Literature, the Il Ceppo Award in Italy, the Mystic Kalinga award, the Charles Wallace, Visiting Arts and Homi Bhabha Fellowships, among others.
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Love Without a Story
Arundhathi Subramaniam in conversation with Rahul Pandita
Versatile poet and writer Arundhathi Subramaniam conjures the essence of the spiritual and the sublime through her writing practice. Subramaniam’s latest book of poems, Love Without A Story, circles the ideas of time, intimacy and the urgency of conversations. She has authored the acclaimed When God is A Traveller, Sadguru, More Than a Life, The Book of Buddha and co-authored Adiyogi: The Source of Yoga with Sadhguru. She has also edited Eating God: A Book of Bhakti Poetry. In conversation with author and journalist Rahul Pandita, she takes us on a journey through her words, inspirations and faith.