Hospital Poems of Mathematics and Madness

Awarded the ‘Sahitya Akademi’ in 2005, Hashpatale Lekha Kabitaguchchho was written by Binoy Majumdar during his confinement in a psychiatric hospital. An engineering graduate with a deep love for mathematics, Majumdar’s poems are both hauntingly precise and profoundly human. Arunava Sinha’s translation unveils a mind teetering on the edge of brilliance and torment.