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Book Excerpt From No One as Rano Biswas— Alokparna

TRANSLATED FROM THE BENGALI BY BISHNUPRIYA CHOWDHURI I know I am going to kill myself. Maybe tomorrow. Or the day after. One of these days. Some day. Why? Why not? What do you think…...

A Review of I, Salma Selected poems— Amanita Sen

TRANSLATED FROM THE TAMIL BY K SRILATA AND SHOBHANA KUMAR   “Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms- to choose one’s attitude in any given set…...

A Book Review Of The Curse— Shubha Sundar Ghosh

A BOOK REVIEW BY SHUBHA SUNDAR GHOSH   Salma needs no introduction. The Tamil born writer and activist, Rakkiaiah alias Salma has out spoken about the conditions that society and it's people places women through each…...

A Review of Blossoms in The Graveyard by Birendra Kumar Bhattacharyya— Yashodhara Gupta

TRANSLATED BY MITRA PHAKUN FROM THE ASSAMESE KABOR ARU PHOOL REVIEWED BY YASHODHARA GUPTA   ‘Nobody asked about the others’ past here. The past was a graveyard.’ And what is a graveyard, but the truest…...

Ecoceanic: Southern Flows— Sarban Bandyopadhyay

A BOOK REVIEW BY SARBAN BANDYOPADHYAY   Ecoceanic: Southern Flows is a collection of short stories and a poem with the ocean as their major theme, written by authors from nations from the “global south”…...

A Review of Modern Assamese Drama: Ram Navamir Nat by Gunabhiram Barua and The Events of an Evening by Dr Birinchi Kumar Baruah

TRANSLATED FROM THE ASSAMESE BY NAVAMALATI NEOG CHAKRABORTY REVIEWED BY AMANITA SEN   In the section titled ‘A Nuanced Understanding of the Assamese Drama’, of the book that is being reviewed here, the translator…...

Book Excerpt from The One Legged— Sakyajit Bhattacharya

TRANSLATED FROM THE BENGALI BY RITUPARNA MUKHERJEE   On a particularly cool, dewy dawn, waking up in his room on the second floor, Tunu heard Biswa Mama pulling water from the well and splashing as…...

Book Review: ‘Windborne: Contemporary Assamese Fictions in Translation’— Yashodhara Gupta

BOOK REVIEW BY YASHODHARA GUPTA “Where did we come from? Why did we come? Why do storms happen? What is death? And life?” When the children in Bipasha Bora’s ‘The People Have Forgotten Thaulipling’…...

Book excerpt from Windborne— Sanjib Pol Deka

  TRANSLATED FROM THE ASSAMESE BY DARADI PATAR     December, 1973  Walking under the straw-knit bamboo archway, he entered Purna Sharma’s home. Purna Sharma sat in his rocking chair on the verandah of…...