Humanities Underground

The Child is Given Over to a Stepmother

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...

The Edifice

  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...

“Aao Radio Sunein”: Manto’s Radio Plays

  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...

In Remembrance of Eid

    Shubha  ————————- *** Eid it is, and yet its presence eludes us. The happiness that used to infect us with the very mentioning of Eid now...

A Poet’s Passage

  Arindam Chakrabarti ————————————-   Time does not pass; we pass. So writes Bhartrahari. “kaalonayaatah...

Nirmala Boudi And The Bureaucracy

Amiya Sen   Translated by Bhaswati Ghosh ——————————————————— Nirman Bhavan–the...

Singing The Boatman: Hemango Biswas and the ‘Bahirana’ in Folk

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...

Kachchh. Khambhi. Kavya. : Six Poems For My Village of

 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...

Why Bear It Like A Crucifix ?

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...

The Ghaat Within

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...

Between Desire and Disability: Karichan Kunju’s Pasittamanidam (Hungry Humanity)

Kiran Keshavamurthy ————————————– Introduction The significance of the literary lies in its ability to imagine the inner...