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Sonnet's books "21 Lines Fusion Sonnets of 21st Century" & "Penumbra of Indian Verses" emerge as poetry best sellers

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Sonnet featured in The Two Thirds North magazine published by the Department of English, Stockholm University, Sweden.

Sonnet's 7th book Diorama of Three Diaries has been released from Authorspress, New Delhi.

Prof. Dr. Shamenaz Sheikh presented a research Paper on Sonnet's Poems at the National Seminar On Socio-Philosophical Dimensions of Culture & Environment (10th & 11th March,2012) to be held at the Department of Philosophy,T.D.P.G. College, Jaunpur, India

Sonnet to be featured at The Penguin Review published by Youngstown State University.
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"Sonnet Mondal’s poetry has a refreshing optimism to it; I love how his poetry echoes with the sounds of Rumi and Adonis. It is with joy that I extend the joy I found in Mondal’s work to Connotation Press Readers."
- Associate Editor, Connotation press, U.S.A. (Issue VII, Volume III Editorial).

Fusion Sonnets of 21st Century

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Diorama of Three Diaries

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Penumbra of Indian Verses

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In a conversation with Youth 24x7 News Portal

"A poet's work is to name the unnamable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep. Youth24x7 gets in conversation with one such poet, Sonnet Mondal. "
-Youth 24 X 7
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Interview with Berry Bill Jr. at Rockfordkingsley,U.S.A.

"Honours and recognitions are modes of encouragement but they cannot be the source of inspirations. So I prefer to keep honours and awards only in showcases. "
-Sonnet At Rockfordkignsley
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Sonnet Mondal appear's in an exclusive interview with ISahitya

“He is one of the probable Nobel Prize for Literature nominees, 2012.... Sonnet is probably one of the youngest poets ever to be nominated for the Nobel. Sonnet’s prowess as a poet and an editor is unquestionable ”
-ISahitya

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"His simple and direct style has reformed the traditional way of composition which has brought him even more close to poetry loving readers. His poems shining as diamonds with many rays penetrate darkness.”

Dr. Maurus Young
President of World Academy of Arts and Culture & World Congress of Poets

"His yearning for pre-lapsarian paradise, aligns him with the Romantics; his inherent resistance to dehumanizing social structures merits comparison with Blake; his sensitivity to the numinous binds him to Hopkins."

Patricia Prime in Writers,Editors and Critics journal of the Guild of Indian English writers

"He writes about everyday life and people with empathy and tremendous sensitivity. Throughout, there is a music which makes his work universal."

Albert Russo, France
1996 jury for the prestigious Neustadt International Prize .

"Sonnet Mondal reflects in his poetry modern India, ruined by modern values, where money or faked sentiments do not seem to offer any consolation for alienated lyric self, who drowns his sorrows in a glass of alcohol, where his image stares him back.”
Rita Dahl, Finnish Poet
Former chair of the committee of women writers of Finnish PEN.

"Poet Joseph Harker contributes a tasty blend of romance & literary hilarity to get you through the impending cold dry nights; a sumptuous pairing with Sonnet Mondal’s melancholy strophes of nostalgia."

Media Virus Magazine ISSUE 26

"Massive monuments of man’s misanthropic malevolence to man say as much of the beauty we’re capable of as it does of the horror we can inflict upon the one who holds the chisel, not the whip. The hands of a slave are an artist’s hands, a beautiful concept from Mr. Mondal."
Editor's Note,Mad Swirl journal
06.23.11

"Sonnet Mondal's sobering Last Wish Declined tackled the controversial issue of the ultimate sanction, capital punishment."

Sunday Editorial, Poetry24 journal
07.06.11

"Participation of Sonnet Mondal in Struga Poetry Evenings will be a grea step towards increasing the cultural cooperation between the two countries- India and Macedonia."

Danilo Kosevski, Director, Struga Poetry Evenings.

The President of India has appreciated your work especially your poem "The Portrait of the Deer".
President of India's Secretariat on behalf of Dr. A.P.J Abdul Kalam

"I appreciate your thinking of me.I wish you all the best in your endeavours."

Drew Faust,
President, Harvard.

I am Happy to know that Sonnet would be awarded
Poet Laureate.
Congratulations.

Taslima Nasrin

"I appreciate Sonnet for his passion and sustained interest in the subject ."

Bhaskar Sen,
CMD, United Bank of India.