Family Matters is a compilation of poems and stories across nine countries. Our most important relationships begin, run their harmonious or inharmonious race and end in the family. They may explain our deepest feelings, wildest dreams, or most unsettling nightmares. In the final analysis, family relations often make or break our personalities, partnerships or careers.

Yet how much do we really know about family life in other countries, other cultures? How much of our cultural knowledge is based on hearsay or worn out clichés? Literature in all its subjectivity can open up unique emotions as well as rational passages to the family affairs of different cultures, thus enabling us to understand ourselves and others much better.

This anthology edited by Christina Cowling, Frank Joussen, and Nivedita, brings you 50 stories and poems including those of the famous poet and Dadasaheb Phalke Awardee Gulzar and Australia's most famous working...