Among the Innuit of Baffin Island 1883 In the summer of 1883 Franz Boas travelled from Germany to Cumberland Sound, Baffin Island, aboard the sailing vessel Germania whose main objective was to evacuate the personnel...
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Read More →Amlan Das Gupta and Subrata Sinha [School of Cultural Texts and Records, Jadavpur University] "The image that is read - which is to say, the image in the now of...
Read More →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...
Read More →Joad Raymond Though already venerable the word pamphlet prospered in the 1580s, as its meanings shifted and it entered into common use. In 1716 Myles Davies claimed it as ‘a true-born English Denison’,...
Read More →Abhi Choudhury 1. Actually, every pronunciation has an objective. Some kind of outlandish and beautiful objective. As and when the speaker makes an utterance, every word brings forth a definite meaning to her,...
Read More →Geeta Patel Miraji was a consummate poet of the streets, someone whose life was made replete through the journeys he took. Mehr Farooqi’s many eloquent portrait in the newspaper Dawn brings him...
Read More →Prasanta Chakravarty I remember a bearded, unkempt middle aged character, presumably not from the neighbourhood, who would be a permanent fixture at various seminars held within Jadavpur University, Kolkata, in the mid-nineties. Sometimes...
Read More →Sumanta Mukhopadhyay Delusion clear field afternoon hops and the sisterly evening lugs him, clutching hands sitting by the bus window why did i think all this the...
Read More →Gokanghat, Tipprah 23.6. 34 Dear Brother, I have read your poem a few times, from beginning to the end. I would like to Read more [...]
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