By Sutputra Radheye
You also call her a slut
if she has slept with you
and even when she hasn’t.
Author: Cafe Dissensus Everyday
By Navras J. Aafreedi
When he built our modest dwelling, he got the name of each labourer who worked during its construction inscribed in golden letters on a black granite stone expressing our gratitude to them.
By Sadaf Bano
Far from being mindless man-eaters, Richardson believes lions have a gentle side that few know about. Their ability to show love may hypnotize anyone for its sheer captivation.
By Gabriel Rosenstock
This Road of Mine is a rollicking read from start to finish and the translator has served the author well – though I’m unhappy with a few phrases such as ‘blow your mind’ and ‘on a high’ which are completely out of register.
By Gopal Lahiri
Utpal Chakraborty’s Kirigami validates a distinctive voice as well as a convincing and captivating command of tone, texture, style and technique. It’s a fine debut collection by a promising poet and a joy to read.
By Rajesh Subramanian
The Tamil Sangam poetry is an invaluable treasure from an eco literary perspective. Rediscovery and re-exploration of the Sangam literature is likely to lead to glimpses of a great civilization that lived one with nature – in letter and spirit.
By Ritamvara Bhattacharya
This is the only hope, stolen marks of each other we carry.
Vignettes that only the street lamp stands as a vigil.
By Aratrika Ganguly
The Tamang Selos are the traditional performative songs of the community. They are sung in Nepali. This amazing amalgamation of so many cultures makes the genre of Selo a melting pot of various cultures pertaining to various regions.
By Subhajit Pal
To dig deeper, the cityscape of Srinagar in Kashmir is filled with mosques and bazaars and the placement of mosques in every neighbourhood testifies to its Islamic roots and belonging.
By Anuradha Mazumder
His head began to swim, his eyes dimmed… suddenly, the train, the people, and the world around him started receding from him as the lonely coach hurtled through the dark entrails of the city at a breakneck speed.
By Amrita Sharma
“Intisab” remains one of Faiz’s most popular and powerful poetic texts, that seems to have relevance in different social contexts.
By Neil Nagwekar
Drifting summer sands of the Canyon
That enrapture grand minds
Are worth five minutes of our time
Because the tour bus is setting sail.
By Dipesh Mittal
1971: A People’s History from Bangladesh, Pakistan, and India serves as a testimony to our shared past, at a time when crossing boundaries is becoming more and more difficult.
By Atreyee Majumder
Bhatia has inaugurated a fantastic city-state that makes itself known in a circular arrangement, navigated by river Rasa, and rahi fields, and a massive wall cutting off the sky from line of vision.
By Sramana Saha
Ek Phaali Rodh ends on a note of hope and positivity in a dark and gloomy bystander-filled world. It conveys the message that the Good Samaritans not only exist but emerge the brightest, relegating all the negative elements to the background.
By Sumit Ray
She stood there, breasts heaving with her power.
One hand resting on her waist,
The other hanging by her side,
Her body leaning back from her divine kala.
By Henry Kyambalesa
The nations have a moral obligation to act in ways that do not only improve the vistas of their citizenry but also contribute to the resolution of global problems and crises.
By Anjali V Raj
The pandemic life has become the new ordinary. I wonder if we would miss our life of social distancing and masks whence this is over.
By Deepti Mittal
I have not kept
The one good photograph with my father.
We were sitting in my father’s vintage car,
And I was silent,
He was breathing and talking heavily,
Struggling for ventilation.
