A creative bilingual writer, Rudra Kinshuk (born 1971) has contributed poems and translations to different publications including The Statesman, The Telegraph, The Asian Age, Famous Reporter, Studio, New England Review and The Little Magazine. He has to his credit several collections of poems as Footprints on the Sands (1996), Portrait of a Dog as Buddha ( 1998) and Marginal Tales of the Galloping Horses (2002), Fragrant Anchors ( 2012), Meditations on Matricide (2013) and In Praise of Ishpa (2015), as well as two books of Santal folk songs trans-created into English Songs of the Wild Birds...