Ranjit Hoskote

Nearly four years since his last volume of poetry, Central Time, Ranjit Hoskote is set to launch his next. One of the most prominent names in the city’s art and literary scene, Ranjit Hoskote tells us that his new volume, Jonahwhale, will hit bookstores mid-January, with a reading timed around the annual Kala Ghoda Festival. The volume has a number of maritime motifs, locales (including our Marine Drive), and characters such as Captain Ahab and the Biblical Jonah, Hoskote says, which are used to talk about the oceans as a medium of transformation, especially of languages.