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The Yellow Metaphorgathers over three decades of Jiban Narah’s shimmering poems, offering a powerful voice from Assam and India’s North-east. Steeped in Mising and Assamese lore, his verses carry the Brahmaputra’s memory, the ache of displacement and the quiet rebellions of longing. Nature, myth, politics and desire braid into incandescent reflections on the human spirit. Translated with luminous care by Anindita Kar, this landmark collection reveals a tender, unflinching, metaphor-rich imagination that lingers long after reading.

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Here is a poet from North-east India, ploughing the Mising–Assamese traditions, and sowing a rainbow of poems. Nobody has defined colours like him. -- Gulzar

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Jiban Narah is a poet, novelist, teacher, and dreamer―one of the most original and influential literary voices from Assam. His work has travelled across India through translations into Bengali, Hindi, Manipuri, Marathi, Oriya, Gujarati, and Tamil. Earlier in 2009, his poems reached English readers in The Orange Hill and The Buddha and Other Poems. Anindita Kar is a translator specializing in Assamese and Bengali texts into English, known for bringing contemporary literature from the region to a wider audience.

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