In Solidarity with Ambai’s Short Stories— Ankita Bose
For a Bengali woman, stumbling upon a collection of contemporary Tamil short stories is uncommon, even when you are a student of literature. Ambai’s collection of short stories, bunched together under the title of A Night with a…...
Sauptik: Blood and Flowers, a Book Review – Purba Chakraborty
Published in 2016 by Harper Collins, Sauptik: Blood and Flowers is the concluding installment in the Parva Duology written and painted by Amruta Patil. While Adi Parva, the first part had set the…...
Translation of the Orgasmic Pleasure – Aritra Sanyal
Father’s on the Phone with the Flies: Herta MüllerTranslated by Thomas Cooper193 pagesSeagull Books Even if we know why people read poetry—nobody can ever possibly tell us where exactly poetry exists—in…...
Voice of Resistance and of Love – Aritra Sanyal
Shankha Ghosh (5 February 1932 – 21 April 2021) was an Indian poet and critic. Ghosh taught at many educational institutions. He won many awards including Jnanpith Award in 2016, highest Literary Award in…...
A Glimpse into the World of Contemporary Bengali Poetry – Himalaya Jana
Chaudhuri, Rajat, trans.The Great Bengali Poetry UndergroundSingapore: Kitaab. 2021,Pages: 140 The perennial question that plagues anyone putting together an anthology of contemporary poetry, and even stirs up controversies at times, is whom…...
Corona Diary that Demands a Reading – Aritra Sanyal
Corona Diary : Before and BeyondHarshita SrivastavaWriters Workshop Entries of a diary don’t expect a reader, a poem does. ‘A lump of time/ Stuck in the throat/ Of this universe,/ An old dusty book/ With…...
Adi Parva: Churning of the Ocean, a Book Review – Purba Chakraborty
Harper Collins 272 pages “Cosmic tales are like fish tanks in their need for continuous aeration.” - Amruta Patil, Adi Parva: Churning of the Ocean Written and painted by Amruta Patil, Adi…...
A tapestry of brilliance, imagination and more… The Gollancz Book of Science Fiction (volume 2) – Mahua Sen Mukhopadhyay
Science fiction stories nowadays have broken the boundaries or what we call stereotypes. The Gollancz Book of Science Fiction (Volume 2) reconfirms that...
A Hell of Your Choosing: Homage, Pastiche, or Parody? – James B. Nicola
The English Cantos, Vol. 1: HellWardby James Sale2019148 pages, paperISBN: 979-8-654151919printed and bound by Amazon KDPcreated with VellumJames Sale’s HellWard should prove of interest to anyone studying poetry—that of Dante in particular (d. 1321).…...
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❤️