Between you, me and our hatred for each other
an ocean came.
Biswadip Chakraborthy
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) .
Lin Bai
Lin Bai was born in Guangxi Province in 1958 . She has nine novels, as well as novellas, short stories, essays, and collections of poetry to her credit. In 1998, Lin Bai won the first Chinese Women’s Prize for Fiction.
Vishnupriya
Vishnupriya is a bilingual writer of poetry, essays, flash and short fiction based in the U.S. She likes to use these genres to express ideas, impulses, and interior mindscapes, and exchange and analyze viewpoints.
Life, Art and Literature in the Time of Pandemic – Editor’s Note
What has been the creative response to the pandemic?
Has the crisis spurred innovation?
Is it too early to decide whether the pandemic will bring about a paradigm shift in how the world thinks?