Locating Postcolonial Hero In Bangla Speculative Fiction (Part III)— Debraj Moulick
Image Used for Representation Professor Shonku designed an indigenous robot that he affectionately called Robu in the science fiction entitled “Professor Shonku and Robu ''. Shonku’s Robu is capable of solving complex mathematical…...
In Praise of Métissage— Cheikh Tidiane Gaye
TRANSLATED FROM THE ITALIAN BY MARIE ORTON There are institutions that aim to promote the ideal of peace, engaging countries of the world to say no to wars, to suffering. In our day in age,…...
Introduction to ARIA: Translations by Sudeep Sen
SCULPTING LANGUAGE, ALTERING TONGUES, INTONING ARIAS Each text is unique, yet at the same time it is a translation of another text. No text can be completely original because language itself, in its very essence, is already…...
Locating Postcolonial Hero In Bangla Speculative Fiction Part II— Debraj Moulick
Mary Shelley’s popular novel Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus (1818) deals with a similar plotline where the main protagonist Victor Frankenstein tried to revive a dead human body and incidentally created a dreaded monster…...
WYRD WORDS: PERSONAL REFLECTION ON THE ART OF HORROR (PART III)— GRANDFATHER HU
PART III: BODY HORROR (DON’T GET NO RESPECT) Image used for representation Body Horror is the Rodney Dangerfield of subgenres: it don’t get no respect. In case that reference eludes the…...
Locating Postcolonial Hero In Bangla Speculative Fiction (Part I)— Debraj Moulick
A deep dive into the world of speculative fiction in Bangla might reveal various underlying aspects like class struggle, gender discrimination, religion dogmatism and futuristic worlds among others. The popular characters of Premendra Mitra’s…...
WYRD WORDS: PERSONAL REFLECTION ON THE ART OF HORROR (PART II)— GRANDFATHER HU
PART II: MUST IT BE HORROR? Image used for representationThis month I needed an easy cheat, so I beg your forgiveness as I set aside all pretensions of professional academic rigor and…...
The Reality of Shadows— Maja Haderlap
TRANSLATED FROM THE GERMAN BY AARON CARPENTER Image used for representationThinking about taboos is no walk in the park, even if it can start out that way. You go on your…...
Climate Fiction: Prophecy or Mere Speculation?—Soham Guha
SOHAM GUHA “It looked like the great heat wave would be like mass shootings in the United States— mourned by all, deplored by all, and then immediately forgotten or superseded by the next one, until…...