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...
Ranajit Das __________________ Journal Entry I I still recall quite vividly that horrendous moment when my little one realized, for the first time, what a lie is. I remember, face to face...
Aakriti Mandhwani _______________________________ Saadat Hasan Manto is arguably best known for his oft-acerbic, yet true-to-life depiction of the tragedies that befell India during the partition...
Shubha ————————- *** Eid it is, and yet its presence eludes us. The happiness that used to infect us with the very mentioning of Eid now...
Arindam Chakrabarti ————————————- Time does not pass; we pass. So writes Bhartrahari. “kaalonayaatah...
Amiya Sen Translated by Bhaswati Ghosh ——————————————————— Nirman Bhavan–the...
Rongili Biswas As part of the legendary folk singer Hemango Biswas’ birth centenary celebration,the first volume of his collected works came out which contained among others, his writings on folk...
Amrit Gangar _________________ Chhasara (chha – six, sarā – memorial stones, also called khāmbhi or pāliya in Kachchh and Kāthiawād; though sarā or saro is a Kachchhi word) is a village of my...
Shiv Prasad Joshi ________________________ That there is a well-planned pattern of attacks is quite evident. One does not need to be thrilled with any prophetic prediction in this regard. People...
Biswadeb Mukhopadhay ______________________ This is a poet of circularity—of the potter’s wheel, the rotund staircase, local implements like the maku and the turpun, the chakravyuh, the...
Kiran Keshavamurthy ————————————– Introduction The significance of the literary lies in its ability to imagine the inner...