Celebrating Dalit Souls, Art and Literature – A Panel Discussion
The Antonym decided to delve deeper into Dalit Souls, Art and Literature over May and June and put together a panel comprising. Dr. Jaydeep Sarangi, Dr. Jayashree Kamble, Angelo Geter, and Prashant Ingole for a stimulating, fierce, and straight from the heart discussion...
Tagore in My Mind – Mousumi Banerjee
Mousumi Banerjee is a Professor of Biostatistics at the University of Michigan (USA). Mousumi is primarily a poet, although she has also written short stories and essays. She writes in both Bangla and English...
Tagore Award for Translated Fiction from Bengali
The Antonym magazine is proud to announce its 2021 Translation award from Bengali in the name of Tagore who continues to inspire all Indian in general, Bengalis in particular...
Indian Science Fiction – A Panel Discussion
The Antonym brought together a wonderful panel of India Science Fiction writers and critics to discuss the uniqueness of Indian Science Fiction. We had Subodh Jawadekar, the renowned Science and Science Fiction writer in Marathi: Dipen Bhattacharya, who writes in Bengali., featuring the social dynamics of imagined future societies interwoven with scientific principle and...
Stories of Accidental Thought. Pandemic Chapter – Carla Faesler
Carla Faesler is a writer and experimental poet. She is the author of the novel, Formol, (Tusquets, 2014), considered the best book published in 2014 by the magazine La Tempestad...
“The World Has Grown Weaker” – Lockdown in the Chinese Countryside, Poems by Rao Jinhui and Ni Zhou
This year the Lunar New Year which fell on 25 January is one of the very rare occasions in which Chinese migrant workers can go back to their place of origin to reunite with their families. This year the traditional celebration coincided with the outbreak of the epidemic. After the announcement of the national emergency...
Lost Language, Forgotten Culture – Ranjita Chattopadhyay
A language is like a river. It flows through the heart of a culture and carries with it the life force which nourishes the culture. To protect the symphony of global culture it is important to protect the diverse languages. It is high time to take some action to instill some life force in the...
Mother Tongue in a Multilingual World – The Antonym Panel Discussion
Languages are the most powerful instruments of conserving and developing tangible and intangible heritage. What do we want to say and in which language?...
“Amader Chhoto Nodi – Olentangy!” Mother Tongues and Our American-Born Children – Dr. Mrittika Sen
Walls have gone up at borders and within people’s minds, and yet, the world has dissolved into an amorphous heap of disappearing linguistic and cultural boundaries...