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...

Images of Listening: Word-Pictures from a Journey through Music

Moushumi Bhowmik and Sukanta Majumdar The pictures are spread before us like disjointed tiles—photographs from our long and entwined journey through music in Bengal. It’s two of us; one singer and...

On ‘Mudradosh’: Jibanananda Das and the Paradox of Subjectivity

Nazmul Sultan                                                        1. Mudradosh evades the order of thought. Stealthily escaping the world of conscious authority, it recurs again and again...

Ireland, Antigone and Sundry Mourning Bodies

 Kusumita Datta My larger work constitutes a close study of the Irish post-revolutionary deployment of Antigone, through the enactment of the myth, by placing it within the text’s own...

Dubey Is No Tolstoy & That’s That: The Contemporary

Aakriti Mandhwani   The English publishing market today is beside itself with questions of viability, visibility and visualization of the popular book. The contemporary Indian book market in...

Clones

Akhlaq Dorji Chanda   The two of them entered the world of blunt trauma. And a thick vat of pounding love and lust. In the woods on the southfacing slopes, just beyond the Parthasarathy rocks...

‘Irreparable Loss Should Be Forgotten As Soon As Possible’

In a conversation with Anil Sinha, Vamik Jaunpuri also says, ‘Poems should not be slogans but they must be loud enough.’ The interview appeared in a Commemorative volume for Anil Sinha, published by...

Prayers, Power, Coronation

1649, Charles I—bodies temporal & eternal Eikon Basilike –The Pourtrature of His Sacred Majestie in His Solitudes and Sufferings-—Frontispiece...

Crows in the Mist

  Parimal Bhattacharya ‘Most of the mango trees around our house were part of the family’s common property. Nobody had rights over the green fruits that dropped on their own, sometimes hit by a...

An Animal, A Night, A Scream

Constant Nieuwenhuys   —————————  Translated by Leonard Bright    The dissolution of Western Classical culture is a phenomenon that can...

Symbol

Ritwik Kumar Ghatak   Symbol—what we call prateek in Bangla.  The thing is the fruit of proliferating human thinking and meditation. These days, I feel, its behaviour and movements have also had...