Teething : A Story Told in Verse

Both fluent and complex, searing and plangent, the poems in Megha Rao’s Teething reveal a remarkable sensibility allied to a rare talent for the language. This is a stunning, moving collection. I look forward to many more! - Dr Shashi Tharoor

If poetry is a metaphorical description of the mundane then Megha Rao is certainly not short of metaphors. These deeply-felt personal poems sometimes have the touch of a butterfly’s wings and sometimes hit the reader like a sledgehammer. - Naseeruddin Shah

Megha Rao breaks new ground with her poetry, effortlessly spanning the intimate and the desolate, beedis and beef biriyani, confessions and love letters. This is a collection at once bold and quiet, a study in love and loss and the yearning for those secret gardens we have all lost. - Jerry Pinto

The poems in Megha Rao’s Teething are jagged and sweet. They shift between survival and heartbreak, the street and the hearth. They wear pearls in the dark. - Tishani Doshi

Devastatingly sharp, with few layers left unpeeled, each line in Megha Rao’s poetry holds up a mirror. There is the ugly, and there is the profound. There is the human, and there is something that lies beyond. Above all, there is honesty and a strength of reflection, sending many a chill down the spine. And yet, every now and then, there is also a glow of memory and warmth; through every loss, also a fight to live on. - Manu S Pillai