By Nishi Pulugurtha
This translation makes available some of Soumitra Chatterjee’s poetry to readers all over the world, revealing the working of a mind that had myriad interests and a creativity that had a great range.
Asides
By Muhammad Shakir
The injection of Muslim-hatred into the subconscious of France cannot be judged on the basis of recent events alone. Its roots extend to the colonial past.
By Kieran Correia
Based on the (dare I say, better!) book by André Aciman of the same name, the film is a tour de force of emotions, turbulently beautiful and devastating, exploring themes of Jewish identity and sexuality along the way.
By Dipanjali Singh
With the ongoing farmers’ protests against the Farm Bills 2020, she has taken to Twitter and derided the farmers and their woefully ‘anti-national’ activities.
By Vidya Tewani
A leaf from the Paath Sahib nani would choose
Her book wrapped in silk folds
Placed on a wooden lattice frame
By Madhu S Nair
After a few months, Mohan Gopal returned to America as a married man. This time he arrived in a different city.
By Anindita Das
Bhaswati Ghosh’s debut novel Victory Colony, 1950 is a story of bereavement, estrangement, and resilience in the backdrop of the 1947 Partition.
By Noduli Pulu
Khalid recognises the linguistic vacuum and its ability to tread multifarious sexualities. Hence, one meets with the urgent desire of articulating the presence of fluid sexuality occupying a liminal space in the heteronormative binary as the keynote of the poem.
By Q M Jalal Khan
The BNP happens to be the most unlucky in having been betrayed not only by who were once its own people but also by itself, that is, by those who still belong to the party.
By Meher Shah
Two women separated by culturally different societies,
kept apart by several oceans
each weaving their craft using different tones.
By Aindrila Chakraborty
The history of Pashmina, which today is globally consumed as an item of luxury, as an item symbolic of Kashmir and Kashmiri culture, is inextricably linked with commodity fetishism, in one of its early forms, entangled with the larger processes of colonialism.
By Amrita Valan
Knowledge is Truth, it germinates
In the soil of free thinking minds,
God’s Holiest Books are we,
Living and loving, weaving parables
By Subhajit Pal
Why is a tourist not allowed to have a bird’s eye-view of the alleged heaven? Is it because of the view of the heavily loaded cantonments might disturb the imagination of a traveller to this heaven?
By Megha Sood
your face is like a poem
those deep lines
etched for eternity
tells a story
written by the verses
deeply lodged in your soul
By Paromita Patranobish
The Sound of A Wild Snail Eating, although written a decade ago, appears to be particularly relevant in terms of the concerns and perspectives it raises for the altered landscape of the pandemic-inflected present.
By K.M. Ziyauddin
As per the Tendulkar Methodology of calculating poverty, Jharkhand has acute poverty in rural areas at 41.6% and in urban at 31.1 % (2009-10).
By Sahil Bansal & Anirban Chanda
Gandhi’s dietetic preference was rooted as much in his curiosity towards food as it was in his will to overcome the British.
By Raunaq Saraswat
The comedy in Ludo rests largely on the shoulders of Aalu, the good-for-everything waiter who blurs the boundaries to fulfill his unrequited love.
By Goirick Brahmachari
Together we could
Change the colours of the words
Change the sharp meanings
Of colours, colourlessness
For all art must melt in sound
By Prithvijeet Sinha
To this writer, as to countless others, Soumitra Dada was a combination of the intellectual and the everyday.
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