Trishanku is a cycle of poems consisting of about fifteen voices that cumulatively reflect the first quarter century of Indo- Canadian experience in Manitoba.
Uma Parameswaran is a retired professor of English, University of Winnipeg; has published extensively in the field of postcolonial literatures; and is the author of several works of fiction, poetry and drama, including the award-winning collection, What was Always Hers, and a recent novel, A Cycle of the Moon.