Book review: Transgression and Other Stories— Pratibha Ray
A BOOK REVIEW BY TAMOHA MAJUMDAR The short story as a narrative form is particularly effective in capturing the most complex human emotions with an economy of language. Pratibha Ray’s collection, Transgression and Other Stories masterfully…...
Suspected Poems Book Review— Shubha Sundar Ghosh
A BOOK REVIEW BY SHUBHA SUNDAR GHOSH One might wonder who Gulzar is. A lyricist? A poet? An author? A film-maker? Well, it may seem quite a hefty task to define him in accordance to a…...
Claiming The Sky— Oudarjya Pramanik.
BOOK REVIEW BY OUDARJYA PRAMANIK Poems work as a medium of communication through written words. Thus, a poem is the product of expressing the emotions of the poet that are shared among the…...
Of Memories, Resistance and Nation-Building: A Review of Shahidul Zahir’s Life and Political Reality: Two Novellas— Rituparna Mukherjee
A BOOK REVIEW BY RITUPARNA MUKHERJEE V.Ramaswamy and Shahroza Nahrin’s translation of Shahidul Zahir’s Jibon O Rajnoitik Bastobota (1987) and Abu Ibrahimer Mrityu (1991) published in the year 2022 by Harper Perennial comes at a…...
The Long Winding Tale – The Resounding Voice of Tilottama Majumdar’s Short Fictions
TRANSLATED FROM THE BENGALI BY SUCHETONA PAL Tilottama MajumdarTilottama Majumdar is a renowned novelist, essayist, short story writer and a poet who has largely written in Bengali. While she has been a recipient…...
Book Review of Manto and Chughtai: The Essential Stories— Anandi Kar
A BOOK REVIEW BY ANANDI KAR Manto and Chughtai The Essential Stories, a collection of select short stories by two of the most salient short story writers from the time when the earliest clarion calls for…...
The Dark Forest— Soham Guha
A BOOK REVIEW BY SOHAM GUHA Remembrance of Earth’s Past Book II When we look at the night sky, two things occur to a person. Either we feel small…...
On Freedom of Women— A Book Review by S. Vincent
A BOOK REVIEW BY S. VINCENT Unchained “Man is born free but everywhere is in chains,” said Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Can he be unchained? Can his shackles be ever broken? Replacing the generic ‘man’ with woman can…...
The Three Body Problem— Soham Guha
A BOOK REVIEW BY SOHAM GUHA This world has received your message. I am a pacifist of this world. It is the luck of your civilization that I am the first to receive your message. I…...