AKLF Premiere, a part of Apeejay Kolkata Literary Festival (AKLF) in association with Oxford Bookstore and Penguin organized the book launch of “Sweet Shop” a book of poems authored by Amit Chaudhuri. The launch was held as part of the 10th anniversary celebration of Apeejay Kolkata Literary Festival (AKLF) to be held from January 18th -20th, 2019.

Amit Chaudhuri’s new collection of poems take their themes from sweets named and eaten, meals remembered, and matches these with meditations on culture, people, time and identity that slowly unfold as much in the mouth as in the mind. And what we discover are the hesitations, assessments and uncertainties that finally make us fully human.

The book launch was followed by a discussion around the book with novelist and critic, Saikat Majumdar.