Bereavement and belonging – memories of people banished from the land they love, play at the heart of the story
The Spy – Mojaffor Hossain
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Biswadip Chakraborthy
What is it to be human? – Arani Baksi
We do it because it is the decent thing to do! That is the essence of being human.
One Bad Decision and a Chaotic Day- Malini Dutta
Failing to rob a cashless bank, an inept bank robber unexpectedly segues into a hostage-taker at an apartment Open House.
A Year In Drowning – Neil Chowdhury and Bishnupriya Chowdhuri
Between you, me and our hatred for each other
an ocean came.
Panel Discussion – Life, Art and Literature in the Time of Pandemic
The Antonym Host Ranjita Chattopadhyaya got together with Artist and Curator Carl Heyward from Sanfransisco, Educator and Translator Radina Dimitrova from Mexico City, Poet and Writer Yashodhara Ray Chaudhuri from Kolkata and Ahmed Masoud, Novelist and Playwright from London for an hour long discussion on how one year of Pandemic impacted the Art and Literary world and what did we copes and learnt from it.
The Poetics Of Ostracism – Fernanda Garcia Lao
Me. An excluding word. How many first-person narratives this pandemic has triggered. We don’t know yet. But what can we expect. If literature feeds on exceptions, the common root promises little.
Pandemic – Alokparna
April 26,,, 2020
These days I seem to repeat all my actions thrice… Otherwise a restlessness gnaws at my insides… I get a feeling that the task at hand is not quite complete… I wash the same cup three times over… I fold a shirt thrice… Think the same thoughts three times… But of course,,, I say it aloud just once lest she starts thinking that I am going mad…
Dad and the Blue Beetle – Drew Barth
She was right. I knew she was right, but that was the gift he’d lauded for decades whenever someone came to the house. I wanted to keep it, maybe display the comic as Dad had before, and pass it down to my kids eventually. But neither of us had kids, just a funeral bill.
Nenad Šaponja
Nenad Šaponja, poet, essayist, literary critic whose verses are recognizable in contemporary Serbian poetry due to their stylistic perfection, hermetic quality and metaphysical insight.
Laura Accerboni
Laura Accerboni was born in Genoa in 1985.She has published three poetry collections: Acqua acqua fuoco ( 2020), La parte dell’annegato (2016) and Attorno a ciò che non è stato ( 2010) .