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The Dark Forestβ€” Soham Guha

Β  A BOOK REVIEW BY SOHAM GUHA   Remembrance of Earth’s Past Book II   When we look at the night sky, two things occur to a person. Either we feel small…...
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On Freedom of Womenβ€” A Book Review by S. Vincent

A BOOK REVIEW BY S. VINCENT   Unchained β€œMan is born free but everywhere is in chains,” said Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Can he be unchained? Can his shackles be ever broken? Replacing the generic β€˜man’ with woman can…...
Three Body Problem

The Three Body Problemβ€” Soham Guha

A BOOK REVIEW BY SOHAM GUHA This world has received your message. I am a pacifist of this world. It is the luck of your civilization that I am the first to receive your message. I…...
Meet Human Meat

Of Concentric Storytelling, Footballs and The Shifting Worldβ€” Mojaffor Hossain

A BOOK REVIEW OF MOJAFFOR HOSSAIN'S COLLECTION "MEET HUMAN MEAT AND OTHER STORIES" BY PINA PICCOLO     Mojaffor Hossain’s latest short-story collection, translated into English from Bangla by a team of 8 stellar translators and…...
A book review of The Walls Of Delhi by Uday Prakash

An Ode To Resistanceβ€” Anandi Kar

A Review OfΒ The Walls Of DelhiΒ by Uday Prakash     Uday Prakash’s The Walls of Delhi, translated into English by Jason Grunebaum, is a rare instance of contemporary Hindi fiction that bravely brings into sharp…...

A Chronicle That Is A Prophesyβ€” Ankita Bose

A book review of Chronicle Of A Death Foretold by Gabriel GarcΓ­a MΓ‘rquez, translated from the Spanish by Gregory RabassaΒ    Publisher: Penguin Random House India, No. of Pages: 122 [caption…...
Review of dystopian novel The Memory Police by Yōko Ogawa translated by Stephen Snyder

The Impermanence Of Memoryβ€” Ahana Bhattacharjee

A Book Review Of The Memory Police: A Novel By Yōko Ogawa And Translated From The Japanese By Stephen SnyderΒ      First published in Japan in 1994, and one of more than 40 works of…...
Book review of Sojourn by Amit Chaudhuri, exploring memory, consciousness and unconsciousness

Of Memories Close And Distantβ€” Subhadrakalyan

A Book Review ofΒ SojournΒ by Amit Chaudhuri     Amit Chaudhuri’s latest novel, Sojourn, published in August 2022, offers us a narrative that has memory as its central character. Even though the story anchors the perspective of an…...

Surreal, Slanderous, and Awake: Nilim Kumar’s Poetryβ€” Aritra Sanyal

A book review of I'm Your Poet (Selected Poems)Β by Nilim Kumar, translated from the Assamese by Dibyajyoti SarmaΒ    Publisher: Red River   In her essay, Translating into English (2005), Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak…...