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Wayfaring the Croon
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Ranjani Neriya’s Wayfaring the Croon is a sumptuous archive of sensations and reflections. It attests to a life dynamically lived, in which memory is a gamut of taste on the nomad’s tongue, a shuffle of songs in the ear, a maritime horizon in the mind’s eye that is as spectacular today as it was nine decades ago, when the poet was a child growing up on western India’s memorably beautiful Kanara coast. Neriya takes us on a pilgrimage across well-loved landscapes spanning several continents, each fashioned into language through sensuous detail. She could well have been a painter, delighting in a palette of gold, ochre, cinnabar, and silky silver. Wayfaring the Croon lifts our spirits up, invites us to extend ourselves along transcontinental and even cosmic scales of being. This is a book to hold close, to open often; a book to be read aloud from and shared across generations of readers.
Ranjit Hoskote
ISBN : 978-1-80603-684-4
Scheduled: 09/07/2026
Pages : 72
Size : 205x140
Imprint : Olympia Publishers
Ranjani Neriya
It began with the first whiff of wet laterite in an acreage of trees, awash with monsoons and bird calls in leaf-green. My father’s huge library, where ’westerns,’ his favorites, were propped alongside other literary gems, showed how words could transport one into sheer magical territory. The long walks to the halls of learning were strewn with the clatter of horse hooves and the musical calls of itinerant vendors. All of this comes together in a sheaf of words, a vanished vista but vibrantly alive in memory.
