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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...

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...

Hereafter the Bitterness

Prasanta Chakravarty_____________________ It is quite agonizing when one fails to find a close enough word or phrase to convey certain words in the English language. In Bangla, once such cluster...

Countless Transcendentals: Kant on Discourse and Quantity

Debajyoti Mondal “Always quantify writing.” – Deleuze & Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus This essay is a mad enterprise in dismantling Kant’s philosophy, particularly his project of...

Stunned Animals, Misunderstood Animals, Beatific Animals: Stray Reflections on ‘Allah

A great humanist work is unpitying and naïve at once. Such writing brings us very close to our unuttered & unutterable tendencies and contingent calculations, and lines those up with the alignment...

Marginal Habitation, Spectacular Presences: Ramkinkar and the Elasticity of Margins

Pradip Kumar Datta In common usage the idea of the margins indicates a position that is outside the mainstream yet related to it. This provides a rich vantage point to critique the structures of the...

The Return of the Stone Age

Nothing catches the pungent flavour of masochist masculinity — and the helpless, misplaced obverse of such a state—which flags our schizoid times, as does the poetry of Ramkumar Chetankranti. His...

The Equitable Force of Destitution

HUG reviews: Nund Rishi: Poetry and Politics in Medieval Kashmir by Abir Bazaz. Cambridge University Press, 2023 What happens to the one who has drunk the nectar and found taste in wild vegetables?...

A Century Shimmers like a Star-studded Sky

Prasanta Chakravarty The tightrope of real intimacy means trying to cultivate our common capabilities—for life is unembellished, plane and full of unexpected miracles; even in barbarous times: जीवन...

The Haunting of the Uprooting: On the Functionality of Revisiting

Aparajita De “Zaam na, zaam na; kisu teyi zaam naa” (“I won’t leave, I won’t; not for anything else, I won’t leave), forty-three minutes into the first film made on...