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.
Asides
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.
By Nabanita Sengupta
To be bovine is blessed
And to be blind
the real heaven.
By Hemaadri Singh Rana
However, with its cogency on legal instruments on statelessness in India and robust arguments on the need to change the condition of Rohingya, the book is of contemporary relevance and may attract legal scholars and policymakers working in the field of refugee studies and social sciences.
To whomsoever reading this.
Thanks for reading this far.
This isn’t a suicide letter.
This is the entire suicide.”
By Roopam Mishra
A few years ago when I read a paper on a particular kind of Bhojpuri folksong, I felt redeemed. This is how I reclaimed my ties with Bhojpuri by accepting, and participating in the culture.
By Seema Bashir
I remember that bright April day,
When they set the sun on fire.
When a worm crawled in,
Through a crevice in the fabric of time.
By Ram Govardhan
And Sara feels that matrimony, as an institution, would always smack of male chauvinism as long as there’s no female Pope. Her greatest dream is to tie the knot when the groom is in jumpers, shorts or long johns on the wedding day, officiated by a gay priest, sans the churchly rituals that suck.
By Amrita Sharma
In the present year that has surfaced new challenges for people across the class divide, the romanticised notions of love appear more and more obsolete and such narratives as those by Ludhianvi continue to remain as contemporary as ever.
By Rajyeshwari Ghosh
There is an understated sophistication in Mumbai’s spirit where you will not be judged based on the car you drive, the street you live in, the clothes you wear, titles you have on your visiting cards.
By Masidur Rahaman
Is not it both paradoxical and ludicrous that while the BJP today is baying for people’s blood in the name of nationalism, its founder not only distanced himself from the mass struggle but also wanted the British government to crush the movement by any means?
