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Book Review of Han Kang’s Human Acts β€” Sanchayita Biswas

BOOK REVIEW BY SANCHAYITA BISWAS     β€œThe state represents violence in a concentrated and organized form. The individual has a soul, but as the state is a soulless machine, it can never be…...

A Book Review of The Wild Weed β€” Oudarjya Pramanik

BOOK REVIEW BY OUDARJYA PRAMANIK   Paul Kaur's collection, The Wild Weed: Selected Poems, translated into English from Punjabi by Arvinder Kaur, is a collection of 65 poems in which lived experience becomes engaged withΒ  shared…...

The β€œWhat’s in a Name?” Rule Applies to All. All Minus One, That is.β€” A Book Review of Nabanita Sengupta’s β€œChambal Revisited”

BOOK REVIEW BY URNA BOSE THE β€œWHAT’S IN A NAME?” RULE APPLIES TO ALL. ALL MINUS ONE, THAT IS.   URNA BOSE REVIEWS NABANITA SENGUPTA’S CHAMBAL REVISITED (An English Rendering of Suvendu Debnath’s Abar Chambal) Β  Β …...

Translation as Navigation between Languages and Cultures: Critically Reading Abdourahman A. Waberi’s β€˜Naming the Dawn’ translated by Nancy Naomi Carlson β€” Oudarjya Pramanik

REVIEWED BY OUDARJYA PRAMANIK     Among the post-colonial African writing voices, perhaps the one that distinctly stands out and discusses matters pertaining to identity, geography, memory, and language with wit is that of Abdourahman A.…...

A Book Review of Afsar Mohammad’s “Evening with a Sufi”β€” Oudarjya Pramanik

BOOK REVIEW BY OUDARJYA PRAMANIK   "Evening with a Sufi" by Afsar Mohammad stands as a beacon of poetic brilliance. As someone new to the academic world, I found this collection of poems a journey through…...

Memories of Wrongdoings and a Burden of Regretsβ€” Reading Hoskote’s Hunchprose (2021)

REVIEWED BY BISWAJIT GOSWAMI   Manash Firaq Bhattacharjee has opined that Ranjit Hoskote belongs to the poetic tradition of Arthur Rimbaud and Paul Celan. However, a thorough reading of Hoskote’s collection, Hunchprose (2021), reminded me…...

The Good, The Bad and The Holyβ€” A Book Review of “Samskara” by U. R. Ananthamurthy

REVIEWED BY YASHODHARA GUPTA   Originally published in the year 1965 in Kannada, Samskara: A Rite for a Dead Man marked the debut of U. R. Ananthamurthy into the literary world, one he would go…...

A Layered Exploration of an Evocative Sibling Relationshipβ€” A Review of Akkaalin Elumbugal

REVIEWED BY SHERWIN RODRIGUEZ Akkaalin Elumbugal, which roughly translates to β€œSister’s Remains”, is a poignant and evocative collection of Tamil poetry by Veyyil, exploring the intricate and often painful world of women through the unique…...

A Foray into True Humanityβ€” A Review of This Damp House by Bibhu Padhi

REVIEWED BY AMANITA SEN   β€œStrange as it may seem today to say, the aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware. In this state…...