By Ananya Dutta Gupta
Saikat Majumdar’s The Remains of the Body suggests a decisive move in the author towards écriture feminine.
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By Ananya Dutta Gupta
What appears to have shocked society most about the devastatingly gruesome death of Swapnadeep Kundu is the stark anomaly between the perpetrators’ scholastic merit and their perverseness of conduct.
By Ananya Dutta Gupta
As a storyteller who does not necessarily see realism and fantasy as contrary impulses, Atanu Ghosh seems to have picked up from where Tapan Sinha left cinema in Bengal.
By Ananya Dutta Gupta
To me it seemed that Durga is the embodiment of this spirit of primitivity, apotheosised into heritage, which is retrieved and revived annually, ritualistically, as a token of reverence and acknowledgement, precisely because it cannot be lived with.
By Ananya Dutta Gupta
Kunal Basu and Saikat Majumdar both turn their spotlight on the Janus that is India today. Riven, fractious, schizophrenic, this India is a site for desperately competing utopian fantasies in desperate denial of the dystopia looming in the wings of history.
By Ananya Dutta Gupta
Not only national and global leaders speaking on electronic media and social network but also common citizens conversing at the dinner table have been drawing an analogy between the pandemic and war in terms of the nature and scale of the campaign of prevention, treatment and cure.
Cafe Dissensus Everyday 