“To love is your right. To be loved is your blessing”: Jagari Mukherjee interviews poet Rajorshi Patranabis
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Jagari Mukherjee is in conversation with poet and Wiccan practitioner Rajorshi Patranabis as they discuss his latest poetry collection, Gossips of Our Surrogate Story (Hawakal Publishers, 2025).
In this illuminating and deeply philosophical interview, poet and Wiccan practitioner Rajorshi Patranabis speaks to poet-academic Jagari Mukherjee about his evocative collection Gossips of Our Surrogate Story. Layered with myth, mysticism, and intimate lyricism, the book presents a poetic dialogue between the narrator and the ancient Egyptian goddess Isis, his muse and altar deity. Jagari’s incisive questions explore not just the poetic craft, but also the spiritual and metaphysical dimensions that shape Rajorshi’s creative universe. From the ethics of divine love and feminist interpretations of power, to the moonlit aesthetics of the poems and the poetic embodiment of Osiris, this conversation journeys through the mysterious alleys of Wicca, mythology, and poetry. What emerges is a rare confluence of devotion, desire, and literary brilliance—a testament to poetry’s power to transcend dimensions and whisper truths the sky itself gossips about.
