BOOK REVIEW OF KALEIDOSCOPE OF LIFE: SELECTED SHORT STORIES OF BIBHUTIBHUSHAN BANDOPADHYAY—DEBOTTAMA GHOSH
BOOK REVIEW BY DEBOTTAMA GHOSH In Kaleidoscope of Life– Selected Short Stories of Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay, a newly translated anthology, translator Hiranmoy Lahiri evokes a tapestry of rural Bengal that transcends its historical setting to…...
BOOK REVIEW OF THE HUNGER THAT MOVED A GODDESS AND OTHER STORIES BY ENDAPALLI BHARATHI — NISHI PULUGURTHA
BY NISHI PULUGURTHA The Hunger That Moved A Goddess and Other Stories by Endapalli Bharathi Translated by V.B. Sowmya SouthSide Books, Hyderabad, 2025 It is interesting to see an increasing interest in translation in…...
Book Review of Arvind Vegda’s Forgotten Sorrows, Translated by Intaj Malek — Falaknaz Malek
BOOK REVIEW BY FALAKNAZ MALEK In the shadowed spaces of human experience, where the burden of societal inequities weighs most heavily, Arvind Vegda’s Forgotten Sorrows stands as a luminous testament to the…...
Book Review of Han Kang’s Human Acts — Sanchayita Biswas
BOOK REVIEW BY SANCHAYITA BISWAS “The 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 — 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 with shared…...
The “What’s in a Name?” Rule Applies to All. All Minus One, That is.— A Book Review of Nabanita Sengupta’s “Chambal Revisited”
BOOK REVIEW BY URNA BOSE THE “WHAT’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) …...
Translation as Navigation between Languages and Cultures: Critically Reading Abdourahman A. Waberi’s ‘Naming the Dawn’ translated by Nancy Naomi Carlson — 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”— 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 Regrets— 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…...