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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 MΓΌllerTranslated by Thomas Cooper193 pagesSeagull Books Even if we know why people read poetryβ€”nobody can ever possibly tell us where exactly poetry existsβ€”in…...

Voice of Resistance and of Love – Aritra Sanyal

​Shankha GhoshΒ (5 February 1932 – 21 April 2021) was an Indian poet and critic. Ghosh taught at many educational institutions. He won many awards includingΒ 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. β€˜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 β€œCosmic tales are like fish tanks in their need for continuous aeration.” - Amruta Patil, Adi Parva: Churning of the Ocean Β 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 poetryβ€”that of Dante in particular (d. 1321).…...

No Country for Lost Men : Personal Accounts from the Refugee Crisis – Somjeet Dey

Two excellent book on refugee literature, first hand accounts both, are reviewed by Somejeet Dey together to bring home the point of helplessness and the long urduous journey of a refugee in search of hope...