"A pair of red mittens / ସୋମବାର ସକାଳର ଆଇଲାନ କୁର୍ଦ୍ଦି / Un par de guantes rojos", by Sahasranshu Dash, opens the multilingual collection of poetry "The Language of the World"

"A pair of red mittens / ସୋମବାର ସକାଳର ଆଇଲାନ କୁର୍ଦ୍ଦି / Un par de guantes rojos", by Sahasranshu Dash, in English, Oria, and Spanish, three languages to express his poetry, an effort by Books2bits to promote linguistic diversity, under the direction of Norma Etcheverry.

Synopsis

Sahasranshu Dash, the poet who opens our collection, was born in Odisha, one of the twenty-nine states of India, in 1991. The author recognizes the influence of Tagore, the contemporary Indian poetry, the existentialists and nihilists of the 20th century, as well as -and especially of- J. M. Coetzee. This diversity in his thoughts is also nourished by Latin American culture, especially García Márquez y Borges. This conjunction of voices is not unrelated to the poems that the author presents in A pair of red mittens.

Dash’s poems are also attuned to the rhythm of the modern world and its angst, which are informed by his training as an economist and his writings on international relations and the geopolitics of abandonment and exploitation. True to his anti-chauvinist way of thinking, he displays (and this is not a minor fact) a critical and rational view of the complex and chaotic world of today, with economic and political circumstances that seem to obscure the immediate future.