Jerry Pinto is the author of Murder in Mahim (2017) and Em and the Big Hoom (2012; winner of the Hindu Prize and the Crossword Book Award) and the non-fiction book Helen: The Life and Times of an H-Bomb (2006; winner of the National Award for the Best Book on Cinema). His other books include Asylum and Other Poems Surviving Women A Bear for Felicia Monster Garden When Crows Are White and as editor A Book of Light: When a Loved One Has a Different Mind Reflected in Water: Writings on Goa The Greatest Show on Earth: Writings on Bollywood Bombay Meri Jaan: Writings on Mumbai (with Naresh Fernandes) and Confronting Love: Poems (with Arundhathi Subramaniam). He has also translated (from Marathi) Daya Pawar’s classic autobiography Baluta and the memoirs I Want to Destroy Myself (Mala Udhvasta Vhachay) by Malika Amar Shaikh and I the Salt Doll (Mee Mithaachi Baahuli) by Vandana Mishra. Jerry Pinto also teaches journalism at the Sophia Institute of Social Communications Media in Mumbai and is on the board of directors of Meljol which works in the sphere of child rights. In 2016 Jerry Pinto was awarded the Windham-Campbell Prize and the Sahitya Akademi Award.
<p>This beautifully designed set brings together two literary anthologies that have no equal in Indian publishing: A Book of New Beginnings: Some Words for Living and A Time for Change: Songs of Hope and Resilience. Curated by one of India’s finest and most well-read writers these are books of compassionate wisdom that draw from a vast range of prose and verse produced in India and the rest of the world over several centuries.</p><p>A Box of Hope is a shining treasury of inspirations and shared experience by over a hundred thinkers storytellers and poets—from Tagore Ghalib Lal Ded Muktabai the Buddha Vivekananda and Faiz Ahmed Faiz to Rumi Teresa of Avila Basho T.S. Eliot Emily Dickinson Nelson Mandela and Dylan Thomas.</p>
