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Book Excerpt from The One Leggedβ€” Sakyajit Bhattacharya

TRANSLATED FROM THE BENGALI BY RITUPARNA MUKHERJEE   On a particularly cool, dewy dawn, waking up in his room on the second floor, Tunu heard Biswa Mama pulling water from the well and splashing as…...

Book Review: β€˜Windborne: Contemporary Assamese Fictions in Translation’— Yashodhara Gupta

BOOK REVIEW BY YASHODHARA GUPTA β€œWhere did we come from? Why did we come? Why do storms happen? What is death? And life?” When the children in Bipasha Bora’s β€˜The People Have Forgotten Thaulipling’…...

Book excerpt from Windborneβ€” Sanjib Pol Deka

  TRANSLATED FROM THE ASSAMESE BY DARADI PATAR     December, 1973Β  Walking under the straw-knit bamboo archway, he entered Purna Sharma’s home. Purna Sharma sat in his rocking chair on the verandah of…...

Listening to The Women of Manipur by Their Voiceβ€” Suranjana Paul

A BOOK REVIEW BY SURANJANA PAUL   The day after the Cricket World Cup final, I was scrolling through my phone and saw people criticizing Harbhajan Singh’s sexist comments about Anushka Sharma and Athiya…...

Book Review of Merakiβ€” Amanita Sen

Β A BOOK REVIEW BY AMANITA SEN The back cover page of her book β€œMerakiβ€œ has these words on it.” I hope you liked the book and I hope you felt the hug I sent you.β€œ Β As if…...

Urdu: The Best Stories of Our Timesβ€” A Book Review by Yashodhara Gupta

REVIEWED BY YASHODHARA GUPTA     β€œBut because stereotypes have greater reach and penetration than ground reality, not many are able to shake Urdu loose from the escapist fantasy of popular perception; the few…...

A Literary Review Of ‘A Cry In The Snow’ By Stella Vinitchi Radulescuβ€” Shrestha Mukherjee

A BOOK REVIEW BY SHRESTHA MUKHERJEE     Can the art of poetry stand out to be the subsidiary to the art of living? Keeping aside the words and the symbolic pleasures of the…...

Book Excerpt of Chandaneshwar Junctionβ€” Shyamal Gangopadhyay

TRANSLATED FROM THE BENGALI BY CHAITI MITRA     Bustling eight o’clock morning bazaar. Three local trains have already passed by. Settled on the floor cushions in his pawn shop, Nadu Shee was scanning the Property…...

Of Whom Shall I be Afraidβ€”Saugata Roybarman

A BOOK REVIEW BY DEBRAJ MOULICK β€œTurning and turning in the widening gyreThe falcon cannot hear the falconer;Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhereΒ Β The…...