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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 Unaccommodated: The Himalaya and the Makers of Their Literature

Amrita Dhar     In this brief note on the reasons, possibilities, and limits holding together—and evoked by—Himalayan mountaineering and its literature, I shall begin in a curious place: a...

The Place, Origin and End of My Teaching

  Jacques Lacan So far as my place is concerned, things go back to the year 1953. At that time, in psychoanalysis in France, we were in what might be called a moment of crisis. There was talk of...

Academia and the Political

  A Conversation between Prasanta Chakravarty and Pothik Ghosh         Institutions and Their Sites Prasanta: Over the past few years there has been a steady shift in the way the...

Theatre, Number, Event: A Second Appraisal

Prathama Banerjee ———————————————————— Soumya is a very old friend from my...

Theatre, Number, Event : An Appraisal

Saitya Brata Das   I feel honoured to be here today on this occasion of the book launch of Soumyabrata Choudhury’s much awaited book Theatre, Number, Event: Three Essays on the Relationship...

Violence, Innocence, Opportunism

K. Balagopal The public arena is witness to dispirited discussion of the ineffectiveness of people’s movements, which are at the most able to slow down things, and nothing more. The discussion often...

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...

Bhaduriji

  Phanishwar Nath Renu on Satinath Bhaduri ******************************** Bhaduriji! We used to call him Bhaduriji. I mean, we, the boys from Zila Purnea. Not Bhaduri-moshai, or Satuda, nor...

Two Stories

    Kate Chopin        The Kiss It was still quite light out of doors, but inside with the curtains drawn and the smouldering fire sending out a dim, uncertain glow, the room...

Sabotage Not Terrorism

Alberto Toscano The war on terror, which we were once told was infinite, seems past its sell-by-date. Even David Miliband has declared the term to be “misleading and mistaken.” But its effects on our...

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