Prasanta Chakravarty On August 4, 1943, a few days before her death and amidst war, Simone Weil began to describe to her parents, Selma (Mime) and Bernard Weil (Biri), from her little room in London...
Kiran Keshavamurthy ————————————– Introduction The significance of the literary lies in its ability to imagine the inner...
Subhasish Ray ——————————— When students from Jadavpur University and their allies in other colleges and universities in West Bengal...
Viren Dangwal Defining the poet of our times, Nazim Hikmet once remarked: “The real poet is not engaged in his love, his happiness or pain. In such poet’s poems his people’s pulse must beat...
Somak Mukherjee In the middle of 1971, when the city of Calcutta according to official figures were witnessing about 200 political killings a month, Mrinal Sen released Interview in some of the...
Vyomesh Shukla (for Pranay Krishna) ————————————— A statement about a place means reaching that place. Only they...
———————————– Your first year’s first publication, dated January 1, 2013 has recently reached me here at Cell No. 10...
Moushumi Bhowmik On 27 August I was at a workshop on copyright and the traditional arts at the West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences (NUJS) on our E.M.Bypass. They...
Prasanta Chakravarty The Filter People are mostly helpless, mostly tangled and messy. Irresponsible with our lives. With others’ lives too. We repeatedly falter. This, our human condition...
Anna Politkovskaya Selections from A Russian Diary. Time covered here: 2003-2004 *** December 8 Early in the morning, political analysts assembled on the Free Speech program to discuss the...
Parichay Patra With the appointment of an obscure actor as the director of the most prestigious film school in India, an outrage engulfs social media and the said school erupts into a protest...