Humanities Underground

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...

My Meat is Yours

                                                        Biplab Chowdhury     “Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood abides in me, and I in him.” –John 6/56   O White Swan Did I...

Calcutta, Crow

Brinda Bose I what conversations do you hold with the room you grew up in? are they the colour texture stink of seaweed, soaked in the spirit of briny seas olive black with the dark weariness of...

Women in Unemployment & Revolutions at the Workplace

Avinash Mishra     A Biography of a New Shekhar   From the ashes of a few poems a life took birth. In order to live one must burn poems. Life seems to be at the centre of all projects and...

Textile Strikes and the Dialectical Montage: Looking at Albert Pinto

Mantra Mukim In one of the early scenes in the film, Albert Pinto ko Gussa Kyun Aata hain?, we see Albert Pinto entering his house, and demanding a cup of tea. A harmless demand otherwise, becomes the...

Kafka’s Parable, or, Literature Between Past and Future

Supriya Chaudhuri Suhita Sinha Roy Memorial Lecture, Paschimbanga Bangla Akademi, 9 January 2015. This lecture was delivered in the evening of 9 January, Professor Jasodhara Bagchi having passed away...

Two Glistening Wheels, a Bell and a Tiffin-Carrier

Krishna Kalpit   Vishwa Hindi Sammelan   The language in which we wail And shed tears They ride on it And fly up above those clouds   One says I did not go Let me be counted among the tyagis...

Under Tiger-striped Skies

Parimal Bhattacharya ‘I don’t know how fear, like an enzyme, triggers a chemical reaction of memory and imagination. Perhaps it plays such tricks: it not only paralyses the present and casts long...

No Phallus, No Death

Udayan Ghosh Choudhury   Tarpan (i) baba had said: however tall you grow, let your feet be grounded since then i am standing with my two legs on the ground ma, tell me how do i now wear my pants?...

Cannibal Manifesto

Oswaldo de Andrade Cannibalism: An Introduction to “Cannibal Manifesto”   The starting date for the Brazilian modernist movement, which advocated a return to the soil, is usually given as 1922...

The Occupation of Art’s Labor: An Interview with Julia Bryan-Wilson

On November 28, 2011, Chris Mansour interviewed Julia Bryan-Wilson, Associate Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art at the University of California, Berkeley and the author of Art Workers: Radical...