Author: Biswadip Chakraborthy

Panel Discussion – Life, Art and Literature in the Time of Pandemic

The Antonym Host Ranjita Chattopadhyaya got together with Artist and Curator Carl Heyward from Sanfransisco, Educator and Translator Radina Dimitrova from Mexico City, Poet and Writer Yashodhara Ray Chaudhuri from Kolkata and Ahmed Masoud, Novelist and Playwright from London for an hour long discussion on how one year of Pandemic impacted the Art and Literary world and what did we copes and learnt from it.

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Pandemic – Alokparna

April 26,,, 2020

These days I seem to repeat all my actions thrice… Otherwise a restlessness gnaws at my insides… I get a feeling that the task at hand is not quite complete… I wash the same cup three times over… I fold a shirt thrice… Think the same thoughts three times… But of course,,, I say it aloud just once lest she starts thinking that I am going mad…

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Dad and the Blue Beetle – Drew Barth

She was right. I knew she was right, but that was the gift he’d lauded for decades whenever someone came to the house. I wanted to keep it, maybe display the comic as Dad had before, and pass it down to my kids eventually. But neither of us had kids, just a funeral bill.

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Nenad Ε aponja

Nenad Ε aponja, poet, essayist, literary critic whose verses are recognizable in contemporary Serbian poetry due to their stylistic perfection, hermetic quality and metaphysical insight.

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Lin Bai

Lin Bai was born in Guangxi Province in 1958 . She has nine novels, as well as novellas, short stories, essays, and collections of poetry to her credit. In 1998, Lin Bai won the first Chinese Women’s Prize for Fiction.

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Vishnupriya

Vishnupriya is a bilingual writer ofΒ  poetry, essays, flash and short fiction based in the U.S. She likes to use these genres to express ideas, impulses, and interior mindscapes, and exchange and analyze viewpoints.

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Tushar Chaudhury

Translated from the Bengali by Rajosik Mitra Insane You were insane back then, and so you’d begged for a piece of gold cumulus to the sunset like a tramp Sepia hills trapped between your eyelids This sorrow took you tipsy...

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  1. Can you please cite the original poem ? Where to find it in Bangla?

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