By Upasana Sarma
Newspapers forge an everyday relationship of language and identity with consumers, becoming indispensible reservoirs of culture, opinion, awareness and opportunity.
Asides
By Rupayan Mukherjee
In India, the capital of culture even to this day is urban middle-class oriented and the privilege of cultural capital is often inseparably associated to the more potent and material forms of capital.
By Shyamasri Maji
I rolled my patience into a French bun
And re-collected togetherness in flakes of dried skin
I waited for thunder and rain
In the dark clouds of your stretching arms.
By Sriparna Datta
The problem is that we are the children of a bad education and it is simply not our fault. Today, being a student who is badly affected by a bad education, I am asking for ‘quality education’.
By Somok Roy
This extraordinary emphasis on 1947 ignores the longer genealogies of the Kashmiri peoples’ struggles for citizenship rights, and the emergence of an ‘Islamic language’ of resistance in response to the Dogra state that explicitly fashioned itself as a Hindu ruling house.
By Prasun Banerjee
Syed Ahmad Afzal’s Laal Rang, a brilliant piece of art, raises after decades of Indian Independence some serious questions regarding the meaning of Azaadi, as Bose envisioned it.
By Sk Sagir Ali
An increase in equality of consumption does not necessarily mean an increase in individual agential autonomy.
By Gabriel Rosenstock
may the rain never cease
i take shelter in Your love
may it drown out all other sounds
say my name once more
may the rain never cease
By Ajitabh Hazarika
It is precisely the plurality of exposure that the editor Kashyap tries to achieve within the corpus of this anthology.
By Adrija Chatterjee
You hear, the footprints never forgetting
How you’d revel the days blood lay free
The serpent’s tongue in you
Choosing the outcast in dingy lanes
As a part of Antaragni, English Literary Events are conducted every year with full fervour and witness intense participation from literature enthusiasts all over the nation. The first phase of events of Antaragni’20 will see students participating in two events, Poetry Slam and Creative Writing.
By Rashmi Kumari
Let our young learn the stories of actual real life heroes such as Babasaheb Ambedkar, Mahatma Gandhi, Jyotiba Phule, Savitri Bai Phule, and many others. The struggle they embodied in their life can change an adolescent’s thinking at the developmental age.
By Sekhar Banerjee
Everything
becomes elliptical before a fall, I understand
in Lohagarh
By Hiya Chatterjee
Summers had us rolling on beaches of our own sh**, the seas
we transformed into a green plasticky excrement of the earth.
By Rajyeshwari Ghosh
The feelings were a combination of guilt, happiness, and joy. I felt guilty because only a few minutes ago, I got suspicious where he was taking me.
By Mozammil Ahmad
The Asian history has seen many wars and conflicts since the beginning. The world must look at the rich Asian history now to seek lessons for the contemporary foreign policy strategy.
By Madhu S. Nair
Damodaran nodded positive but he didn’t mean it. He was in a hurry to escape from the suffocation of blind love.
By Abu Osama
Muslims need to understand that the solutions to worldly problems are rooted in worldly systems.
By Nishi Pulugurtha
The eldest in a family of six, her nickname is Baby. In spite of all the ravages that Alzheimer’s disease has brought, she still responds to that nickname.
By Ishrat Bashir
While to live in the face of annihilation is in itself a statement of resistance, telling stories is living with a song that could not be buried in the rubble of imposed wars.
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