By Hindol Chakraborty
Although ghazal is chiefly associated with Urdu, it can embrace any language as it concentrates more on the construction, not the language.
By Prithvijeet Sinha
A man of Mr. Vanraj Bhatia’s calibre embodied multiple worlds and with his music, collective filmography available on YouTube and streaming services, it’s time we gave this musical pioneer his due.
By Atreyee Majumder
I found that Lauren Berlant’s diagnosis of ‘cruel optimism’ lay as a tragedy of triumph, located as it was in the heart of capital’s wins. America.
By Mursalin Mosaddeque
Byapari’s zeal for a delineated political narrative is so palpable throughout the pages that it makes me ponder what his priorities are: ideology or literature?
By Nabanita Sengupta
The stories in this collection often peep into the partially known, cloudy, translucent part of the mind.
By Neera Kashyap
The editor Indira Chandrasekhar has brought together some of the finest examples of short fiction, a coming together of a diverse variety of geography, style, range, content, skill and translation that makes this a fascinating collection for the reader.
By Gita Viswanath
This Land This People contains translations of more than hundred poems by seventy-one Rajbanshis poets, a marginalized community within the already marginalized and mistakenly homogenized population of the Northeast.
By Prasasti Pandit
When you are expecting something, your sole focus will be on the result, however, when you are aiming for something, you are actually concentrating on the means to achieve that goal.
By Anik Sarkar
For many of us, being animal-like is being erroneous: unpredictable, unrestrained, brutish, and untamed. While being machine-like is being clockwork: systematized, repetitive, routinized, and accurate.
By Umang Kumar
what need of ceremony,
when the ritual of life
is over?
By Dipanjali Singh
In the midst of this destitution and #SOS tweets, Indians have been offered succour and solidarity from the people of Pakistan.
By Sadiq Zafar
Urban land became a commodity which was beyond the capacity of the poor people to afford, raising other related issues like degraded living conditions and emergence of slums, ghettos, and squatters.
By Umar Timol
Every time a Palestinian child dies, he bequeaths this light to his people, which entrenches in their lands, nourishes it, and unleashes sustenance for uprising and freedom.
By Anandita Pathak & Aditya Ranjan Pathak
The Covid-19 situation in the country last year which took a critical turn fuelled the rise in cases of racism against the Northeastern population in the other metro cities of India where they migrate for higher education or work.
By Devraj Singh Kalsi
Just as we have one good reason to remember her. We became better human beings because of her.
By Aishwarya Bhuta
Maybe it is time for Indian citizenry to bang pots and pans again, albeit in protest like the Brazilians against the insufficient policy responses and inability to prevent the catastrophe.
By Evgeny A. Khvalkov
Alrond got ready for the trip and thought about going to Adtiarn to the court of King Taravon. He, people say, pays the brave and clever nobles handsomely. And Alrond went to the city of Adtiarn.
By Nayyar Hilal
In the Dal water has turned to blood –
I tried to write with it but
my hands are trapped in barbed wires.
By Sourya Chowdhury
Tamhane is only two films old but is already in the process of mastering a distinct mode of storytelling, auteur-like in his predisposition for long, lingering shots, naturalism and loving portrayal of the mundane.
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