By Gopal Lahiri
On the edge of the chimney and window
a lonely flute man interrupted the silence,
ghost stories leaped from the river water
to greet the ascending stars.
Asides
By Sutputra Radheye
We must bring poetry and art to the streets again. It must speak to common people. It must use a vocabulary that all can understand, and thematically, it should spit blood on the face of the crown, the establishment. It must end the elitist cycle of producing art.
By Sharif Atiquzzaman
As he walked to the hotel, Arif thought of the carved map of a divided country on Ator Ali’s cracked, worn-out skin.
By Pratik Phadkule
The centrality of ‘people’ in this democracy seems to be have vanished. I am literally unable to see ‘people’ and hear their voices in this country.
By Rini Bhattacharya
I tend to express her sadness, her frustrations of being
A failed wife, a failed activist, a failed poet, a failed mother
By Shubham Chauhan and Saurabh
When the institutions meant to support the weakest in the chain adopt ulterior motives, the absurdity of the system cracks open.
By Zeeshan Ahmad
On 15 December 2019, the 467.6 hectares of AMU campus metamorphosed into a near warzone with around 22000 students left to their own.
By Jharna Sanyal
At the end of the day, I find my words
mending gaps and pores with the vowels.
There are only five.
By Ken W. Simpson
The US government is responsible for the violence which infects not only America but also its allies. The recent shootings are symptoms of this violence.
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.
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.
