Book Review: Water Has Many Colors by Dr. Kiriti Sengupta

Ajanta Paul reviews Dr. Kiriti Sengupta’s poetry collection Water Has Many Colors (Published by Hawakal Publishers, 2022) calling it a powerful collection that works on multiple registers.

Seen this way, poetry is the language of the soul scrawled across the walls of human communities – spontaneous, stirring, and, frequently subversive. Dr Kiriti Sengupta’s latest literary offering, Water Has Many Colors refracts the rays of a radiant vision that splits into a rainbow of reflections. The poems in the mentioned collection encourage the notion that poetry, like water, is a source, substance, and sustenance of life, an element essentially colourless that yet shines with the myriad hues of its environment.