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Purple Candles – Avishek Parui
Feelings from the past haunt the story from inside, sometimes articulated or implicitly revealed, but often not, expressed rather as contradictions, gaps and intensities in physical presence...
What We Really Wanted – Romel Rahman/Abhishek Roy
A satirical take on exploitation and further deprivation of the poor in Pandemic...
The Spy – Mojaffor Hossain
Bereavement and belonging - memories of people banished from the land they love, play at the heart of the story...
A Year In Drowning – Neil Chowdhury and Bishnupriya Chowdhuri
Between you, me and our hatred for each other
an ocean came...
Pandemic – Alokparna
April 26,,, 2020
These days I seem to repeat all my actions thrice Otherwise a restlessness gnaws at my insides I get a feeling that the task at hand is not quite complete I wash the same cup three times over I fold a shirt thrice Think the same thoughts three times But of course,,, I...
Dad and the Blue Beetle – Drew Barth
She was right. I knew she was right, but that was the gift he’d lauded for decades whenever someone came to the house. I wanted to keep it, maybe display the comic as Dad had before, and pass it down to my kids eventually. But neither of us had kids, just a funeral bill...
The Scaly People – Modhura Banerjee
The Scaly People - A Graphic Fiction on the plights of migrant workers during Indian lockdown...
Pause – Deb Bandyopadhyay
I cracked, I shatteredan warm slice of litterpinched trough the cavernsrested time in a jaryes, I heard it fracture Lights from distant towerpierce like a wavy painrhythmic vicissitudesmillion senses of puncturesolitude in a chain Frozen light curved the needlesfrozen…...
Pendulum – Jayanta Dey
The shopkeeper shut his open eye this time. I knew he was watching me through the magnifier lens attached to his eyepiece. I felt quite uncomfortable, like I was a damaged clock. He was unscrewing all the nuts and bolts of my body, turning them over and over. Behind the eyepiece, his eye narrowed. It...
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❤️