Vernaculars Underground: Histories, Politics, Aesthetics–ABSTRACTS AND BIONOTES
March 7th and 8th, NMML, New Delhi I Speakers Anil Yadav, Sinews of the Political in the Hindi Underground The world of blogs is a mystery. It comes...
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Shibu Natesan : Animals, Magic Realism & Multiple-Realities
Siddharth Sivakumar [Siddharth Sivakumar is currently doing B.A. in English literature at Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan. He has an avid interest in art practices & art history and routinely writes for some of...
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Coldness and Cruelty: Two Contracts of von Sacher-Masoch
I Contract between Mrs Fanny von Pistor and Leopold von Sacher-Masoch On his word of honour, Mr Leopold von Sacher-Masoch undertakes to be the slave of Mrs von Pistor, and to carry out...
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Earth: A Wandering
Alfred Kentigern Siewers Earth is at once both symbol and reality: both a planet with a proper name and a substance, humus, from which the human emerges in participation, along...
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Sheesha Ghat
Naiyar Masud [HUG is grateful to author Anil Menon for providing us with this version of the story] Sad mauj raa ze raftan-e khud muztrib kunad Mauje keh bar-kinaar...
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Success, Publishing & Indian Comics
Bharath Murthy This piece is a presentation of my views on the comics medium in India, and some of my ideas for the growth of the form. These ideas are the result of...
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Bashonti
Chandril Bhattacharya Is this Bashonti Sanyal who imprints red-lac dye and rubs lotus-petals on her palms. Is this Bashonti Mukherjee who lights candles every morning on the window sill so that her lover...
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Aliens of the same world: The Case of Bangla Science Fiction
Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay Locating Bangla Science Fiction SF as a genre has always presented problems of definition. Since Gernsback’s “scientifiction”, attempts to define the nature of this genre have been common, so much so that...
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Of Sublunary Incubus-Demons and Their Givenness
Jeffrey Jerome Cohen “Between the moon and the earth there live spirits whom we call incubus-demons.” So declares Maugantius, summoned before the king to explain how a boy named Merlin could...
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