1. Classics Re-established
(March 2015/Reviews)

...ranslator), The Interior Landscape: Classical Tamil Love Poems, New York Review of Books, 2014. 126 pgs. Mani Rao (translator), Kālidāsa for the 21st Century Reader, Aleph Book Company, 2014. 292...

2. The Immateriality of Home: A Review of Desde Hong Kong
(December 2014/Reviews)

...h;and an awareness of that situation. The Modernists did not want to be French: they wanted to be modern. Mani Rao’s multitextual poem, “I Talk to Myself — I Talk to You,” op...

3. More Tagore: Rabindranath Tagore: Selected Short Stories
(March 2012/Reviews)

 by Mani Rao Rabindranath Tagore, trans. Mohammad A. Quayum, Rabindranath Tagore: Selected Short Stories, Macmillan, 2011. 160 pgs. Rabindranath Tagore is an icon of Indian literature. He is

4. Mani Rao
(March 2012/Contributors)

Mani Rao is the author of eight books of poetry including Ghostmasters (Chameleon Press, 2010) and a translation of the Sanskrit Bhagavad Gita (Autumn Hill 2010, Penguin 2011). Visit her website for m

5. Learning to Hear Mani Rao: Mani Rao's Ghostmasters
(February 2011/Reviews)

by Reid Mitchell Mani Rao, Ghostmasters, Chameleon Press, 2010. 80 pgs. This is a chair You may as well sit on it It's no good as firewood These lines conclude Mani Rao's Ghostmasters. In an

6. Alan Jefferies
(May 2009/Contributors)

...om the University of Technology, Sydney. In 1998 he moved to Hong Kong where he lived until 2007. With Mani Rao and Kit Kelen he initiated the spoken word reading "OutLoud" and later st...

7. Cha: An Asian Literary Journal
(March 2012/Front page)

...rie Yip Wai Shan (cover artist) Book reviews: Harshana Rambukwella, Madeleine Marie Slavick, Glen Jennings, Mani Rao, Michael O'Sullivan, Dinah Roma Sianturi, Abigail Cheung, Pauline Burton, Micha...

8. Guest Editors and Contest Judges
(About/Staff)

...teenth Anniversary Issue: Arthur Leung and Royston Tester #50, September 2020 - "Writing India": Mani Rao #49, June 2020 #48, March 2020 - "Writing Malaysia": Bernice Chauly #47, ...

9. Four Poems
(November 2007/Poetry)

by Mani Rao Star-crossed You hold on to this cloud, I hold on to that Shouting the shapes over each other’s voices Everything turns to water, darling Tired    sleep The riddle

10. Mani Rao
(November 2007/Contributors)

Mani Rao (b.1965 India) is the author of seven poetry books. She has been published in journals including Wasafiri, Meanjin, Washington Square, Fulcrum and WestCoastLine, and in numerous anthologies i

11. Cha: An Asian Literary Journal
(November 2007/Front page)

... Kwok, Leon Lai, Elbert S.P. Lee, Mary Lee, Russell C. Leong, Arthur Leung, Leung Ping-kwan, Reid Mitchell, Mani Rao, J. A. Tyler, Cyril Wong, Daphne Wong, Nicholas Wong, Nicole Wong, Bryan Thao Worra...