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Tempting Fate β€” Jean FrΓ©mon

TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH BY JOHN TAYLOR TEMPTING FATE - Jean FrΓ©mon Translated from the French by John Taylor Francis the first of…...

Sita of Bandhavgarh β€” Indira Dangi

TRANSLATED FROM THE HINDI BY ANURADHA DOSAD   SITA OF BANDHAVGARH - INDIRA DANGIΒ  Translated from the Hindi by Anuradha Dosad The residents of Madhya Pradesh are no strangers to forests and…...

Wyrd Words: Personal Reflections On the Art of Horror (Part IX) β€” Grandfather Hu

TRANSLATING A FEMINIST TWIST INTO THE MURDER BALLAD   The modern murder ballad is a medieval inheritance, a contemporary translation of an old form of minstrelsy that titillated tavern patrons with poetically enhanced accounts of…...

Conversation with Poet Nimrodβ€” Patrick Williamson

INTERVIEWED BY PATRICK WILLIAMSON     Patrick Williamson: What themes or ideas do you explore in your poetry? How do your personal experiences or beliefs influence your writing? Nimrod: I only write about…...

A Book Review of Afsar Mohammad’s “Evening with a Sufi”β€” Oudarjya Pramanik

BOOK REVIEW BY OUDARJYA PRAMANIK   "Evening with a Sufi" by Afsar Mohammad stands as a beacon of poetic brilliance. As someone new to the academic world, I found this collection of poems a journey…...

Clouds and Other Poemsβ€” Anita Agnihotri

TRANSLATED FROM THE BENGALI BY SARMISTHA DUTTA GUPTA AND SHAMBHOBI GHOSH Clouds Translated by Shambhobi Ghosh from the original poem β€˜Megh’ Like primordial fishes, clouds roam in the darknessFrom one corner to the next, sometimes, snarling, the…...
Curfew

Curfewβ€” Vandana Yadav

TRANSLATED FROM THE HINDI BY SHIVANI YADAV   Girls are as delicate as a piece of cotton. They are taught domestic chores early on in life so that they remain inside the house. Just like…...

Caress and Other Poemsβ€” Arpita Kundu

TRANSLATED FROM THE BENGALI BY SUBHADIP DUTTA CHOWDHURY     Caress Long before the conception, I made you, too, potent!Despite that, every time our weary, mellowed feverLooked for a profound azureThe bedsheet and pillow got dotted…...

A Conversation with Mridula Gargβ€” Owshnik Ghosh

INTERVIEWED BY OWSHNIK GHOSH   Mridula Garg is a well-known Hindi writer. She had written short stories, novels, plays, travelogues, essays, poems and columns. Besides Hindi, she also writes in English. She won the Sahitya…...