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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...

The Nineteenth of May, Selections

  Translations: Arjun Chaudhuri —————————————- Feeling the Nineteeth–of Poetry and Resistance   Tushar Kanti Nath  ...

Keisham Priyokumar and the Economy of Fragmented Narratives

Loiya Leima Oinam ——————————— Keisham Priyokumar is perhaps the most important author in this regard since his stories capture the...

Fafamau

    Prasanta Chakravarty   ওর আর কোনো গতি নেই জানো, কবিতা লেখা ছাড়া—she does not have any recourse, you know, other than writing poetry. This is what rings in my ears. This is how Anindita...

Fake Tree, Real Death

     Anil Kumar  Yadav   —————————————– Among the things with which the future shall take stock of and...

No More Flat Feet

Serge Berna, Jean-Louis Brau, Guy-Ernest Debord & Gil J. Wolman Internationale Lettriste #1 (November 1952) _________________________________________ Sub Mack Sennett director, sub-Max Linder...

Gathering Shadows, Shamsher Bahadur Singh

Lakshmidhar Malviya (Gathering Shadows, Shamsher Bahadur Singh. Years covered: 1961-1975) __________________________________________________ ईमान गड़बड़ी में है दिल के हिसाब में लिक्खा हुआ कुछ और मिला...

The New Between Past and Future: The Question of Method

Dear HUG Readers: Here are the youtube links to the video clips of the forum (second & final in the series) on ‘The New Between Past and Future: The Question of Method in the Humanities...

Boundaries and Porosities: The Question of Method in the Humanities

Dear HUG Readers: Here are the freshly uploaded youtube links to the video clips of the first forum on ‘Boundaries and Porosities: The Question of Method in the Humanities’ —a...

On Misunderstanding the Will of God

Amlan Das Gupta   The critique of violence is the philosophy of its history Walter Benjamin   I wish in this essay to consider a question which presents itself with some force in Samson Agonistes...

The Chowkidaar

  Kritika Chettri Above Deorali, outside the Tashi Ding hotel, the chowkidaar budo stood letting smoke from his beedi trail down to the mist that had begun erasing the valley. Inside, men and...