Ananta Kumar Giri's Alphabets of Creation is a collection of poetic jottings with a mystic slant that ask significant questions to art and life and seek their answers. These are everybody's questions but the answers are not everybody's, with deep meditation working behind them. I wish the poet all the best. ---- K. Satchidanandan, Poet and Critic & Former Secretary, Sahitya Akademi, Delhi. About the Author Ananta Kumar Giri is a Professor at the Madras Institute of Development Studies, Chennai, India. He has an abiding interest in social movements and cultural change, criticism, creativity and contemporary dialectics of transformation, theories of self, culture and society, and creative streams in education, philosophy and literature. Dr. Giri has written and edited around two dozen books in Odia and English, including Global Transformations: Postmodernity and Beyond (1998); and The Calling of Global Responsibility: New Initiatives in Justice, Dialogues and Planetary Realizations (forthcoming). He writes poems in both Odia and English. Weaving New Hats: Our Half Birthdays (2019) is his first book of poem in English which is being followed by Alphabets of Creation: Taking God to Bed (forthcoming). Alingana (Embrace) is his first book of poems in Odia which is being followed by Sikhara o Buddhapada (Peak and the Feet of Buddha) which is coming out soon.