Prasanta Chakravarty Unappeasable and plain. That is the reason Simone Weil is able to unburden and pull us deeper into relentless entanglements and by doing so, sets us free. “The woman who wishes...
Sarmistha Dutta Gupta On a September afternoon, when the sky was signalling the arrival of the Pujo season in Bengal and yet monsoon flowers like dopati were in full bloom, I joined a rally in...
Avinandan Sthanpati Chandannagar/Chandernagore is usually slotted as an erstwhile French colony. Though that identity is almost shut out from memory now. It is like any other small...
Rabindra Kumar Dasgupta ——————————————————– Dead Weight of Printed Knowledge Sir...
Viktor Shklovsky —————————– I took my milk home. I walked through the park. The foliage, the cool of the shade, the lawn, and –the sun. I...
Anjana Chakrabarty for shaitaan Pebble Dipping at this river In dress untainted Sankha-sindoor adorned At your tread thakur this pebble I fix to a twig No, not seeking...
Snehangshu Kanta Acharyya ————————————– I entered the Presidency Jail at about 9 PM. After long spending time in the...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9BlI9nhqTE Manash Bhattacharjee The new Airtel advertisement, which shows the relationship between a man and a woman where the woman plays the boss in office...
Sergey Stepnyak-Kravchinsky ————————————————————– I should like now to...
Prasanta Chakravarty The career of poet Samuel Daniel (1562-1619) is a powerful instance of how a poet might succeed through patronage, quite independent of his considerable talent. After his...
George Seferis, in conversation with Edmund Keeley Seferis was nearing the end of his longest visit to the United States at the time of this interview, which took place in late December of 1968. He...