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 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.
By Arjan Batth
The West has a tight noose around the world, ensnaring all in its grip. Almost everything, everywhere has a disturbingly distinct Westerness. It has proliferated into every country, leading all to happen in a Western context.
By Sanghamitra Bhumana
You are a force to reckon with!
Your life will forever bequeath
a shining light of sheer might.
By Q M Jalal Khan
Many Awami claims, either concerning the Awamis themselves or the opposition BNP, begin and end in controversy, obstinacy, distortion of history and political manipulation and vindictiveness that do not and cannot stand the test of time.
By Aindrila Chakraborty
While Sufi mysticism is used commercially through its assimilation with other forms of traditional and non-traditional dance and music, the idea of Jihad is mostly commercialized to perpetuate the idea of a bad Muslim.
By Sonali Pattnaik
But your resistance, after you no longer are,
Has now begun
We will not let power get away
After what they have done and undone
By Hirak Dasgupta
Free thinking Bengalis are a wild bunch – anarchists, non-conformists, back talking antichrists in a true Hindu nation. The sooner they can be got rid of, the quicker a police state can be brought into being.
By Md. Hasanujjaman
The land erosion has been hastened by illegal brick-kilns, run by land mafias with the help of politicians and the police. The residents wait silently for their turn to be submerged under the river.
By Kamalini Natesan
What I have is Daddy’s Hat, and Mommy’s Pain. There’s a hole inside me, I think. I think it is what I am, a girl with a hole inside her.
By Hirak Dasgupta
I was surrounded by indoctrinated men like me. And we all believed that Mr. Modi was the true incarnation of Lord Vishnu.
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