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Translation as Navigation between Languages and Cultures: Critically Reading Abdourahman A. Waberi’s β€˜Naming the Dawn’ translated by Nancy Naomi Carlson β€” Oudarjya Pramanik

REVIEWED BY OUDARJYA PRAMANIK     Among the post-colonial African writing voices, perhaps the one that distinctly stands out and discusses matters pertaining to identity, geography, memory, and language with wit is that of Abdourahman A.…...

A Book Review of Afsar Mohammad’s “Evening with a Sufi”β€” Oudarjya Pramanik

BOOK REVIEW BY OUDARJYA PRAMANIK   "Evening with a Sufi" by Afsar Mohammad stands as a beacon of poetic brilliance. As someone new to the academic world, I found this collection of poems a journey…...

Memories of Wrongdoings and a Burden of Regretsβ€” Reading Hoskote’s Hunchprose (2021)

REVIEWED BY BISWAJIT GOSWAMI   Manash Firaq Bhattacharjee has opined that Ranjit Hoskote belongs to the poetic tradition of Arthur Rimbaud and Paul Celan. However, a thorough reading of Hoskote’s collection, Hunchprose (2021), reminded me…...

The Good, The Bad and The Holyβ€” A Book Review of “Samskara” by U. R. Ananthamurthy

REVIEWED BY YASHODHARA GUPTA   Originally published in the year 1965 in Kannada, Samskara: A Rite for a Dead Man marked the debut of U. R. Ananthamurthy into the literary world, one he would go…...

A Layered Exploration of an Evocative Sibling Relationshipβ€” A Review of Akkaalin Elumbugal

REVIEWED BY SHERWIN RODRIGUEZ Akkaalin Elumbugal, which roughly translates to β€œSister’s Remains”, is a poignant and evocative collection of Tamil poetry by Veyyil, exploring the intricate and often painful world of women through the unique…...

A Foray into True Humanityβ€” A Review of This Damp House by Bibhu Padhi

REVIEWED BY AMANITA SEN   β€œStrange as it may seem today to say, the aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware. In this state…...

Nawabgunjβ€” Jhelum Trivedi

As a global citizen, Nawabgunj emerges as a microcosm of the world at large with all its diversities, simplicities and predicaments. This place acts as a window through which the poet observes the milieu of living…...

A Satire with a Lightness of Touchβ€” A review of Vivek Shanbag’s Sakina’s Kiss

REVIEWED BY KATHAKALI JANA   The ordinariness of middle-class existence is the backdrop of Vivek Shanbagh’s remarkably nuanced novel, Sakina’s Kiss, translated into English from the original Kannada by Srinath Perur. The novel explores the…...

Krishna Gopal Mallick’s Entering the Mazeβ€” A Rare Indulgent Voice in the Genre of Queer Fiction

KRISHNA GOPAL MALLICK’S ENTERING THE MAZEβ€” A RARE INDULGENT VOICE IN THE GENRE OF QUEER FICTION   REVIEWED BY SUCHETONA PAUL   When I finished reading Krishnagopal Mallick’s Entering the Maze, a collection of…...