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Three Devils of Bengal: Origin, Wealth, and Religion | B.Z. Khasru

August 6, 2022

Ever since Bangladesh's violent birth 50 years ago with India's midwifery, Bengalis on the two sides of the Hindu-Muslim divide have pondered anew a nostalgic question: Will East Bengal [Bangladesh] and West Bengal [part of India] ever reunite? This question leads to several others: How did the Bengalis get divided in the first place? Is it just religion that burst them asunder or there are other deeper issues? How does the Bengal situation fit in the overall Indian context? [Read the rest...] “Three Devils of Bengal: Origin, Wealth, and Religion | B.Z. Khasru”

The True Nature of the Intellectual Killings | Mozid Mahmud

August 4, 2022

The principle question here is this: Why are intellectuals killed? The intellectual killings that took place on 14th December 1971 – were the first of its kind? Or had there not been any similar incident taking place thereafter? I am not aware of all the events that had occurred in history. Besides, not all events are worth a mention either. But more or less, everyone who has some institutional knowledge of this is aware of one or two intellectuals who had been treated as such. And if the intellectual killings in our nation stop, then we might have to come to the conclusion that no intellectual is born anymore. Or perhaps we’ve somehow attained utopia. Either one of the two is true, and the former being true is a reason why the civil society of our time cannot enjoy the independence and freedom we are owed. Or perhaps they are being martyred every second and we aren’t aware of it, for their preoccupations obstruct their recognition as intellectual. [Read the rest...] “The True Nature of the Intellectual Killings | Mozid Mahmud”

Bandhavgarh: From the Ship of Golden Memories | Partha Pratim Dube

February 22, 2022

In the middle of March, clouds are getting together in the sky. After gazing at the heaped dark clouds for some time, Ramdin Baiga, the experienced guide of Bandhavgarh forest, said in a low tone by provoking the theory of possibility, "Sir, this is the ideal environment to see tigers, leopards and bears." In the suddenness of words and in the thoughts of the future to come, Rumki, the youngest member of our team, swallowed quite a bit of water. We have come in search of situations of the Bandhavgarh tiger victims in Madhya Pradesh. Now, hoping to see tiger and respecting the conventional system followed by the travelers, we, a team of five persons, ride a zip safari in the Tala zone of Bandhavgarh National Forest. The National Forest Department has divided the Forest into three zones; Tala, Magadhi and Khitauli. Now, at the time of entrance we get to rest awhile as the security officers of the Forest are checking the requisite papers. [Read the rest...] “Bandhavgarh: From the Ship of Golden Memories | Partha Pratim Dube”

August Rains | Roudri Bandyopadhyay

August 31, 2021

“At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom. A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new, when an age ends, and when the soul of a nation, long suppressed, finds utterance.” – Jawaharlal Nehru, independent India’s First Prime Minister Red Fort, New Delhi, August 1947 [Read the rest...] “August Rains | Roudri Bandyopadhyay”

A plague on all our houses: Pandemics and plagues in literature | Mozid Mahmud

August 26, 2021

Jack London had written his The Scarlet Plague thirty-three years before Camus’s famous The Plague. One could call it an excellent example of proto-post apocalyptic fiction. It recounts the story of the “Red Death” in America, which has depopulated most of the region, following the lives of people in San Francisco sixty years after the plague. [Read the rest...] “A plague on all our houses: Pandemics and plagues in literature | Mozid Mahmud”

Virginia Woolf Showed Me How the Language of Trauma is Silence | Loren Kleinman

December 2, 2018

Virginia Woolf Showed Me How the Language of Trauma is Silence | Loren Kleinman“When I cannot see words curling like rings of smoke round me I am in darkness—I am nothing.” ? Virginia Woolf, The Waves.

Under the weight of goose down and split spine, I lingered in Orlando. How true it was that nothing “thicker than a knife's blade separates happiness from melancholy.” [Read the rest...] “Virginia Woolf Showed Me How the Language of Trauma is Silence | Loren Kleinman”

Orientalism in Disney Movies | Arnima Singh

November 26, 2018

Orientalism in Disney Movies | Arnima Singh

“The Orient is not only adjacent to Europe; it is also the place of Europe’s greatest and richest and oldest colonies, the source of its civilizations and languages, its cultural contestant, and one of its deepest and most recurring images

… [Read the rest...] “Orientalism in Disney Movies | Arnima Singh”

The Walking Man | John Richmond

July 14, 2018

The Walking Man | John RichmondThe neighborhood- for a long time- had been relatively health conscious with quite a few people jogging and cycling, so, it came to be that almost no one paid any particular attention to a man walking. Well, at least, not right away. He first appeared at the beginning of summer- three years ago- simply walking- though intently and purposely- but, still, just walking down the street. [Read the rest...] “The Walking Man | John Richmond”
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The Noose | Naresh Kumar

Thambi | Jeyamohan

Educating Manju | Richard Rose

Water Wars | Priyanka Mathur

Water Wars | Priyanka Mathur

Corporate Ladder | Swapnil Bhatnagar

Translated Poems

Murder | Subodh Sarkar

Bribe | Subodh Sarkar

Tumi Robe Nirobe | Rabindranath Tagore – A Translation

Nothing new | Irsa Ruçi

Timeless…| Irsa Ruçi

Continuity | Irsa Ruçi

Translated Fiction

The Scape-goat | Indraganti Narasimha Murthy

Scape-Goat | Indraganti Narasimha Murthy

“Hello Mr. Murty …” phoned in Sadanandam, the General Manager of ABC bank. “We have reviewed the … [Read More...]

Gratitude | Dr. Veluri Rama Rao (translation)

Gratitude | Bhagavatula Venkata Radhakrishna

If ever you go to Laxmipuram and ask for the house of Veera Venkata Satyanarayana garu, nobody will … [Read More...]

Being and Nothingness | Rabeea Mahmood Rabeea

Being and Nothingness | Rabeea Mahmood Rabeea

Sir, I assure you and I repeat it for ten times: "I am not MAD" … "Though I am not looking in a … [Read More...]

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