Jhilam Chattaraj

Jhilam Chattaraj is an academic, critic and poet. Her books include Sudeep Sen: Reading, Writing, Teaching (2025), Noise Cancellation (2021), Corporate Fiction: Popular Culture and The New Writers (2018), and When Lovers Leave and Poetry Stays (2018). Her works have been published in Ecocene, Mekong Review, New Contrast Magazine, One Art, Calyx, Ariel, Room, Colorado Review, World Literature Today and Asian Cha among others. She received the CTI Excellence Award in ‘Literature and Soft Skills Development’ (2019), from the Council for Transforming India and the Department of Language and Culture, Government of Telangana, India. She was nominated for the Nina Riggs Poetry Award (2023). She is an Assistant Professor at RBVRR Women’s College, Hyderabad.

Hope is a Choice: A Review of Ranjit Hoskote’s Trilogy—Jonahwhale (2018), Hunchprose (2021), Icelight (2023)

Jhilam Chattaraj

“I stand firm because i stand nowhere” — Ranjit Hoskote, Apostle, Icelight, 2023 David Graeber and David Wengrow begin the book, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity (2021) by stating, “Most of human history is irreparably lost to us.” Early cave paintings around 25,000 and 15,000 BC provide us a glimpse of […]

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