A pair of red mittens

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.

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Dash, S. (2023). A pair of red mittens. La Plata: Books2bits. https://doi.org/10.51438/B2Bdash2023

Sahasranshu Dash (born on November 9, 1991) is a research associate at the South Asia Institute of Research and Development, Kathmandu, Nepal. He is a regular contributor on topics related to macroeconomics and international relations to The Business Post, Modern Diplomacy, New Age, and The Daily Observer. However, as the son of two academics in literature, Dash has been immersed in poetry and fiction from a young age. This exposure to the breadth and wonder of world literature and a sensitivity to the precision and urgency of written verse define his poems. Through them, he seeks to find his way out of the disorienting miasma of the everyday- both personal and political- while acknowledging that no such exit route may ever yield. Poetry is at best the crystallised essence of our being: at others, an attempt to seek patterns in the ether. It is Dash’s hope to succeed at the latter and some day- with luck- stumble upon the former.