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Karthika Nair

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Excerpted from the prologue of Until The Lions, a reworking of the Mahabharata in verse
*: A riff on the phrase in Salman Rushdie\'s Joseph Anton, ‘you must live till you die’

Karthika Nair

(India, 1972)

Karthika Nair published her first book of poems, Bearings, in 2009. Her other works include a book of children’s fiction and a work entitled DESH: Memories inherited, borrowed, invented. Her poetry has been widely published in journals and anthologies. She writes in English.

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CONSTANCY V

Excerpted from the prologue of Until The Lions, a reworking of the Mahabharata in verse
*: A riff on the phrase in Salman Rushdie\'s Joseph Anton, ‘you must live till you die’