From the 2024 festival
Rajorshi Patranabis
Biography from 2024
Rajorshi Patranabis is a multilingual poet, translator and editor delving into myriad forms of poetry. A food consultant, by profession, and a Wiccan, by philosophy, his collections boasts of supernatural and metaphysical love poems( Crossover-love beyond eternity), sonnets(Pregnant), haiku(Solstice ), ghazals in English with a pen name Kafir( Through your Eyes), poems of love in Bengali(Feriwala) and a couple of Assamese translation projects( Nirjon Soikot-Luit Hooghly, Ramp) and quite a few publications in national and international journals and anthologies.His latest collection is Shaktirupen, which is a collection of 30 sonnets about some known and unknown women characters of Ramayan and Mahabharat. His upcoming projects include Palette, which is a collection of haibun and Soliloquy ( his second collection of Ghazals in English)