Humanities Underground

Colour of Olives

Prasanta Chakravarty Wartime _________ Our country is not warring right now  With any other country Still, you have got to know A state of war has been declared Barbed...

A MargHumanities-NMML Conference – Vernaculars Underground: Histories, Politics, Aesthetics

March 7th and 8th, 2014, at Teen Murti House, New Delhi Is it possible to create something of a larger platform for humanities studies by stepping outside of academia to think about it more...

The Diva & the Minister

  Prasanta Chakravarty It is indeed remarkable when a chief minister of a state gets a by-line in a leading newspaper, even if that is ghost written to a considerable degree. But it is not really...

Ingeborg Bachmann & Paul Celan: Herzzeit/Heart’s Time, A Correspondence

  Paul Celan was born in 1920 in Bucovina, Romania. He became one of the most prominent 20th century poets. Celan committed suicide in Paris, in 1970, before turning 50. Ingeborg Bachmann was born in...

Wild Donkey’s Bray

Rana Roychowdhury —————————————————————– Rage I Have Veiled Rage I...

All The Shared Experiences Of The Lived World II

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All The Shared Experiences Of The Lived World

  ——————————————— Parvez Kabir:  Shiv da, it is indeed an honour to be able to interview you on your...

The Loss of Wor(l)ds: Theatre in Manipur and Heisnam Kanhailal

    Trina Nileena Banerjee   “The child, I looked at the new born child crying. I noticed that the whole body of the child cries. But actors only use a certain resonator. Actors do this...

Gay For More Than A Day Of Rage

    Brinda Bose Since ‘straight’ is linguistic harakiri for 377-talk, perhaps we first need to get this crooked: if we say ‘we are all queer’, we cannot make a ‘they’ out of the LGBT...

Confessional Diary

    Subrota Dasgupta ——————————————–   Indulging Bhanu was the sole impetus behind my story...

Paul Celan And The Future of the Poem

Manash Bhattacharjee   The name “Paul Celan” in the title refers to not only Paul Celan the poet but also Paul Celan who talks about poetry. Celan is in dialogue with his craft; with others in...