Just three kilometers off the busy Bangalore-Mysore highway and 15 kilometers from Srirangapatna is an unexpected and delightful surprise for the nature-loving traveler. Surrounded by rich paddy fields and wet swamps where streamlets wind their slippery way through the foliage, Ranganthittu Bird Sanctuary is made up of six isolated islets on the river Cauvery. Formed in the 1700s when a dam was built over the Cauvery, these islets attract a different kind of madding crowd – migratory birds from as far as Siberia and Australia. (more…)
- I'm a poet from India and currently writer-in-residence at the University of Kent in England. My first collection City of Water was published by Sahitya Akademi earlier this month.
About City of Water:
From the preface by Keki N. Daruwalla:
City of Water is remarkable for its supple language and tensile strength. Her images are sharp and there is integrity about the core of feeling that propels the poem. One cannot spot any weak moments either in terms of emotion or language....Anindita Sengupta never lets a poem run away with her. Like all good poets, she is original both in her way with words and her personal angle of vision."
Get in touch: anu.sengupta[at]gmail.com 
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