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drenched thoughts

Prescribed as mandatory reading in an elective course on Multicultural Society at Utrecht University, The Netherlands. 

drenched thoughts is a poetry-prose genre collaborative, philosophical diasporic novel meandering amidst thoughts, emotions, and feelings. It begins after its protagonist Priya’s son gets married in Chicago, sixteen years after they leave India to create new, peaceful, conflict-free lives. Grounded in the reality of a broken past, the novel epitomizes determination, tenacity, and gratitude.

drenched thoughts: a novel

Authorspress, 2023

Prescribed as mandatory reading in an elective course on Multicultural Society at Utrecht University, The Netherlands. 

drenched thoughts is a poetry-prose genre collaborative, philosophical diasporic novel meandering amidst thoughts, emotions, and feelings. It begins after its protagonist Priya’s son gets married in Chicago, sixteen years after they leave India to create new, peaceful, conflict-free lives. Grounded in the reality of a broken past, the novel epitomizes determination, tenacity, and gratitude.

Kisses at the Espresso Bar

Kelsay Books, 2022

Finalist for the Rabindranath Tagore Literary Prize, 2023

This is an ekphrastic prose poetry collection. Poems in this volume are like pieces of artwork representative of the real-surreal layered world in which we reside. The book contains poems inspired by images of seven artists’ work from around the world who are mixed media artists, sculptors, painters, quilt artists, visual artists, and graphite pencil artists. Thematically, the prose poems present poetic questioning and deliberations on injustice, love, rejection, conceit, life, motherhood, environment, and gender bias, among others.

What's wrong with us Kali women?

Kelsay Books, 2021

Nominated as the best poetry book for 2021 for British Ars Notoria

and prescribed as mandatory reading in an elective course on Multicultural Society at Utrecht University, The Netherlands. 

Inspired by the strength of Hinduism’s many female goddesses, especially Kali, and by the author journeys across the world, prose poems in this book portray the perceptions of a diaspora Indian woman on immigration, domestic abuse, rape, aging, Covid19, single motherhood, love and sensuality, death, racism, sexism, environment, alien life, environment, poverty, and much more.

This collection of prose poems was nominated by Cyril Dabydeen, Guyanese Indian Canadian & Ottawa poet laureate emeritus & novelist . Its prescribed as mandatory reading in an elective course on Multicultural Society at Utrecht University, The Netherlands. 

Hey, Spilt Milk Is Spilt, Nothing Else

Authorspress, 2018

This is Anita Nahal’s second book of poems. The first, Initiations, was published in 1988. In between life took over, and while Nahal kept the creative vigil going, it is only now that she felt comfortable in bringing all the poems she had been writing for the past twenty years, together in her second book.

Life On The Go

Authorspress, 2018

Anita Nahal’s first collection of flash fictions (short stories under 1000 words), will delight you in their honesty, simplicity, and the “aha” moments! These are stories that roam in the realm of thoughts, feelings, dreams, daydreaming, and unplanned moments.

Soul Spaces: Poems on Cities, Towns and Village

Authorspress, 2022

Arising from the perils of the recent pandemic, spaces and places have come to acquire a new and profound or altered significance in the imagination of the poets in this volume from the US, Canada, India, Australia, the UK, South Africa, the Caribbean, and the Kingdom of Bahrain!

ISBN 978-93-5529-746-4

Editors: Anita Nahal, Basudhara Roy, Cyril Dabydeen, E. Ethelbert Miller, Jaydeep Sarangi, Malashri Lal, Nandini Sahu, & Swati Pal

Pixie Dust & All Things Magical

Authorspress, 2022

Pixie Dust & All Things Magical: Global Poetry in English 2022 is an edited book by Anita Nahal, published in January 23, 2022, by Authorspress. 

Earth Fire Water Wind

Authorspress, 2021

Earth Fire Water Wind (An Anthology of Poems) is an edited book by Anita Nahal and Roopali Sircar Gaur published in February 18, 2021 by Authorspress. 

In All The Spaces

Authorspress, 2020

In All The Spaces: Diverse Voices in Global Women’s Poetry is an edited book by Anita Nahal and Roopali Sircar Gaur published in 2020 by Authorspress.

United States policy towards Egypt 1953-1958

Commonwealth Publishers, New Delhi, 1994

This book analyses US Policy towards Egypt during and immediately after the Suez
crises of 1956.

Initiations

Pitamber, New Delhi, 1988

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