[Amitabh: Samastipur aur anya Kavitaen. New Delhi:Nibandh, 2023] 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...
Read More →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 the Partition, Chinnamul (The Uprooted,...
Read More →Subha Mukherji in Kolkata, October 2021[The author is Professor of Early Modern Literature and Culture, University of Cambridge] ‘Bhaager Ma’: Durga Puja, Barisha Club, Kolkata, October 2021. Photo: courtesy of the artist, Rintu...
Read More →The poet and the essayist Shiv Prasad Joshi has recently written an essay in Pahal about the wellsprings of writing (http://pahalpatrika.com/frontcover/getrecord/321), on the question of holding a perspective and on modes of enunciation....
Read More →# 1927: a young Jibanananda Das musters courage to send his first collection of poems—Jhara Palok—by post to Rabindranath Tagore, requesting the great man for his opinion. Tagore reads the poems and...
Read More →Prasanta Chakravarty “Secretum meum mihi: the absence of reticence among many modern writers, the taste for autobiography and confession, the habit of admitting the public to the innermost recesses of an intimacy...
Read More →Prasanta Chakravarty An Honest Letter An exceptional testament about the nature of violence in times of civil war appears in the form of a letter: the one sent by Simone Weil...
Read More →Rana Roy Our world is going through a crisis, caused by power and the will to overpower. Power to overpower nature works in tandem with the wish to overpower humans and creatures...
Read More →Arijeet Mandal The first reaction after receiving a small cut or bruise in humans is to put it inside the mouth. If the bruise is in some other part of the...
Read More →It is an unanticipated coincidence that the collected works of Parthapratim Kanjilal, a major poet writing in Bangla for the past half a century, has been published just as George Steiner has breathed...
Read More →Dear Iqra, I have seen you in classes and in the Arts Faculty corridors. Yesterday I read your helpless and yet immensely brave note after being attacked on the North Campus of Delhi...
Read More →Life is short and there are many books to encounter. How does one underline the ones that are worthwhile? More importantly, how do whole societies and traditions take up certain readings as...
Read More →Prasanta Chakravarty In his book Practicing Caste, on Touching and Not Touching Aniket Jaaware takes caste as an instance in order to transport us elsewhere.We are not yet born, he says. So, he...
Read More →We celebrate festivals. Actually we celebrate the experience and mood of a festival. Celebrating itself is an art, a primitive and joyous form. Besides, festivals are where we gather as a community—real...
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