And Topu was carrying an enormous placard with the boldly written words, “We demand Bengali as our Official Language!”.
As soon as we reached the High Court turning, all of a sudden the people in the crowd started screaming and shouting, it seemed as if all hell had broken loose. There was mayhem all around.
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.
Read More“No-o-o-o-o, do not forget. Don’t forget my fallen children…. My Barkat, Salam, Rafik, Jabbar, Abdul, Shafik… They are standing by you. And remember my daughter… Roshanara… your sister!
Read MoreZinia Mitra teaches at the Department of English, University of North Bengal. Her poems have been published in National and International journals including Muse India, Ruminations, Contemporary Literary Review, Kavya Bharati, East Lit. Indian Literature among others
Read MoreAbhimanyu Mahato is a poet and journalist. He has written several books of poetry, most notably Maati which received the Yuva Sahitya Akademi Award in the year 2014.
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Read MoreConventional Bangla poetry has remained enshrouded in the ‘superstition of modernity’ propounded mainly by our purported ‘educated’ urbanized class. The ostensible educational system and its associated...
Read MoreKedarnath Singh (1934-2018) is one of the doyens of Indian poetry. He wrote in Hindi, his mother-tongue.
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poetry show ‘Als het glas scherft’ (‘When the glass shatters’)
All six of them remembered, simultaneously, the scene in the movie Sharmilee where the bright-faced
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Personally , I am an admirer of the Translator 😍. 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 ❤️ I loved it
Just a wonderful work Ma'am....I loved it❤️