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GAJENDRA THAKUR / SIX SOURCE EDITIONS

Six books. New routes into the writing.

Poetry, young readers and fiction: explore the supplied editions through paired Maithili and English introductions. Each page identifies its source and the limits of the reading.

01 / Poetry for young readers

Akulait Sur — Restless Notes

This collection brings teenage ghazals together with poems and songs in two stated divisions. Its contents move from toys, grandparents, birds and play toward examinations, comparison, digital attention, friendship, work and independent decisions. This is a map of the listed subjects, rather than a claim that each poem has been closely assessed.

342 PDF pages · 2026

02 / Crime fiction

Bijji: Among the Crocodiles

The subtitle places Nyāya philosophy beside a modern crime narrative. The author’s note explicitly presents the people and criminal events as fiction, with social fear, financial networks, digital fraud and the human consequences of crime among its concerns. The opening locates unease in an ordinary household: damp earth, an uncertain lamp, a lightly sleeping grandmother and a mother beside her child make vulnerability domestic before it becomes an abstract question of justice.

510 PDF pages · 2026

03 / Ghazals

Diwan-e-Videha

The title material identifies 591 ghazals—458 general and 133 teenage ghazals—alongside one kata and two rubai. These are the source edition’s declared counts. Its alphabetical index offers a second route through a large collection, allowing a reader to approach a title without treating sequence as the only organising principle.

612 PDF pages · 2026

04 / Illustrated fiction

Code Name: Tarharime Gohi

The supplied novel foregrounds names, networks and the traces left by changing identities. In the sampled central dialogue, Sunayana notices a repeated pattern; Abhayakanta distinguishes a changeable name from the habits and recurring mistakes that are harder to alter. Identification is consequently presented as an act of comparing behaviour, not simply accepting a label.

144 PDF pages · 2026

05 / Stories for young readers

Nav Pankhi — New Wings

The supplied contents list twenty teenage stories, ranging from displacement and migration to libraries, floods, science, mobile phones, trees and shared investigation. The opening story explores dimensions through a laboratory conversation: beings confined to a line cannot perceive the possibilities available from another dimension. The scene makes a limit of perception available to imaginative inquiry rather than presenting a scientific demonstration of time travel.

129 PDF pages · 2026

06 / Fiction

Saatam Sakshi — The Seventh Witness

The edition records first publication in 2020 and copyright years 2020 and 2026. Its contents present forty-two chapters, with disappearing people and documents, family secrets, arrest, bail and ownership of evidence among the named stages. These headings establish an investigative framework, but they should not be substituted for an account of how each event unfolds.

303 PDF pages · 2026