Blue Is Like Blue: Stories

SARA RAI has translated The Golden Waist-Chain and Munshi Premchand's Kazaki and Other Marvellous Tales. Her memoir, Raw Umber, was published in January 2023.

VINOD KUMAR SHUKLA is a poet and novelist from Raipur, Chhattisgarh. In 1999, Shukla received the Sahitya Akademi Award for his novel, Deewar Mein Ek Khidki Rehti Thi. In 2023, he was awarded the PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature.

 

Arvind Krishna Mehrotra's mimeographed pamphlet, bharatmata: a prayer (‘india/my beloved country, ah my motherland/you are in the world's slum/the lavatory'), was bought out from ezra-fakir press in 1967, when he was an MA student at Bombay University; his most recent publication is a collection of poems, Of Least Concern (Literary Activism/Westland, 2025). He did his BA from Allahabad University where he also taught and now lives in Dehra Dun.