“This is quicksilver, effervescent poetry, borne headlong on a strong impulse.” 
— Keki N. Daruwalla, poet & writer, Sahitya Akademi award winner

“ Shikha’s poems are fresh and intimate, talking to each one of us in our own different tongues.”
— K. Satchidanandan, poet & writer, Sahitya Akademi award winner

“This collection is a whole-heartedly enthusiastic debut.”
— Sudeep Sen, editor, The HarperCollins Book of English Poetry

“Shikha Malaviya’s clever and inventive poems inhabit the contested space where Western culture collides with Hindu mythology, in a resplendent crash of forms that range from prose poems to lyrical litanies, all of them deeply felt and elegantly crafted.” 
— Ravi Shankar, Executive Director, Drunken Boat

“This is a lambent, heart-wrenching debut collection. Passionately attentive and formally audacious, Malaviya swings between the horrific, the humorous and the humane: she delights with the play of languages.”
— Priya Sarukkai Chabria, author, Not Springtime Yet