Purple Candles – Avishek Parui
Feelings from the past haunt the story from inside, sometimes articulated or implicitly revealed, but often not, expressed rather as contradictions, gaps and intensities in physical presence.
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What We Really Wanted – Romel Rahman/Abhishek Roy
A satirical take on exploitation and further deprivation of the poor in Pandemic
Read MoreThe Spy – Mojaffor Hossain
Bereavement and belonging – memories of people banished from the land they love, play at the heart of the story
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What is it to be human? – Arani Baksi
We do it because it is the decent thing to do! That is the essence of being human.
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One Bad Decision and a Chaotic Day- Malini Dutta
Failing to rob a cashless bank, an inept bank robber unexpectedly segues into a hostage-taker at an apartment Open House.
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A Year In Drowning – Neil Chowdhury and Bishnupriya Chowdhuri
Between you, me and our hatred for each other
an ocean came.
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.
Read MoreThe Poetics Of Ostracism – Fernanda Garcia Lao
Me. An excluding word. How many first-person narratives this pandemic has triggered. We donβt know yet. But what can we expect. If literature feeds on exceptions, the common root promises little.
Read MorePandemic – Alokparna
April 26,,, 2020
These days I seem to repeat all my actions thriceβ¦ Otherwise a restlessness gnaws at my insidesβ¦ I get a feeling that the task at hand is not quite completeβ¦ I wash the same cup three times overβ¦ I fold a shirt thriceβ¦ Think the same thoughts three timesβ¦ But of course,,, I say it aloud just once lest she starts thinking that I am going madβ¦
Read MoreDad and the Blue Beetle – Drew Barth
She was right. I knew she was right, but that was the gift heβd 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.
Read MoreNenad 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.
Read MoreLaura Accerboni
Laura AccerboniΒ was born in Genoa in 1985.She has published three poetry collections:Β Acqua acqua fuoco ( 2020), La parte dellβannegatoΒ (2016) and Attorno a ciΓ² che non Γ¨ statoΒ ( 2010) .
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Personally , I am an admirer of the Translator π. I usually go through her writings . This is also…
Personally I am an admirer of the Translator, I usually prefer to go through her writings . She is an…
Such a simple yet powerful expression of the wrongdoings that occurs in domestic sectors. Absolutely loved the story.
Can you please cite the original poem ? Where to find it in Bangla?
Such a wonderful work ma'am β€οΈ I loved it
Just a wonderful work Ma'am....I loved itβ€οΈ