Listening to The Women of Manipur by Their Voice— Suranjana Paul
A BOOK REVIEW BY SURANJANA PAUL The day after the Cricket World Cup final, I was scrolling through my phone and saw people criticizing Harbhajan Singh’s sexist comments about Anushka Sharma and Athiya…...
Book Review of Meraki— Amanita Sen
A BOOK REVIEW BY AMANITA SEN The back cover page of her book “Meraki“ has these words on it.” I hope you liked the book and I hope you felt the hug I sent you.“ As if…...
Urdu: The Best Stories of Our Times— A Book Review by Yashodhara Gupta
REVIEWED BY YASHODHARA GUPTA “But because stereotypes have greater reach and penetration than ground reality, not many are able to shake Urdu loose from the escapist fantasy of popular perception; the few…...
A Literary Review Of ‘A Cry In The Snow’ By Stella Vinitchi Radulescu— Shrestha Mukherjee
A BOOK REVIEW BY SHRESTHA MUKHERJEE Can the art of poetry stand out to be the subsidiary to the art of living? Keeping aside the words and the symbolic pleasures of the…...
Book Excerpt of Chandaneshwar Junction— Shyamal Gangopadhyay
TRANSLATED FROM THE BENGALI BY CHAITI MITRA Bustling eight o’clock morning bazaar. Three local trains have already passed by. Settled on the floor cushions in his pawn shop, Nadu Shee was scanning the Property…...
Of Whom Shall I be Afraid—Saugata Roybarman
A BOOK REVIEW BY DEBRAJ MOULICK “Turning and turning in the widening gyreThe falcon cannot hear the falconer;Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The…...
A Review of ‘The Grace of My Home’ by Julio Monteiro Martins— Amanita Sen and Barid Baran
The Grace of My Home Julio Monteiro MartinsTranslated from the Italian by Donald Stang and Helen WickesPublished by The Antonym CollectionsFirst Edition, 2023Hard Cover#Pages 136ISBN 139788196395926 https://youtu.be/kz0f4LkcYzU Also,…...
Book Excerpt— Of Whom Shall I Be Afraid
An excerpt from ‘of Whom Shall I Be Afraid’, by Sougata Roybarman, translated from the Bengali by Subhadeep Palit The parapet of this high-rise building was different from the others. It was not lonely. On many a…...
A Review of Chandrakanta Murasingh’s Memoirs of the Woods— Oudarjya Pramanik
Book review by Oudarjya Pramanik In the contemplative realm of literature, one often encounters works that evoke a profound connection between the written word and the recesses of one's memory. As I delved into the…...