We celebrate festivals. Actually we celebrate the experience and mood of a festival. Celebrating itself is an art, a primitive and joyous form. Besides, festivals are where we gather as a...

Siddhant Mohan   It was one drunk night of November. I came back from Ayodhya and had finished a piece of reporting over the upcoming radical set up in Ayodhya which would demand for Ram Temple...

   Prasanta Chakravarty ________ What the poet produces is akin to the javelin thrower’s act—a bit of the soil from the entrails of the earth, which hides concealed spots of blood. Ephemera it...

Adhoori Baten  (Click for the Full Essay in Hindi).   HUG talks to Shubha, with reference to her reflective essay अधूरी बातें, on Time and Memory. _______________ HUG: Though your reflections in...

‘স্বরান্তর’ পত্রিকা, তাদের নববর্ষ সংখ্যায়, জানতে চায় কোন বই পড়ে এখনো বিমূন্ধ বা বিস্মিত হই. আমার নিজের একান্ত ভাবনাই বা কি সে বই সম্বন্ধে. কেন পাঠক নতুন করে সেই বইয়ের প্রতি মনোযোগী হবেন ...

    Aniruddha Chowdhury   _________________________ Hayden White has challenged the veritable intellectual tradition that since the time of Aristotle rests on the distinction of poetry...

  Susan Stewart, The Poet’s Freedom: A Notebook on Making   “to compose is the verb applied to the making of poem”   Along some seashore, sometime, we detect a young boy who, after...

  Jean Starobinski: Enchantment: The Seductress in Opera.   One can imagine a certain immobile time, a time of eternal present.In such a time there are no battles or notions of property. No...

Classics of Literary Criticism Revisited   All Flesh is Grass Harold Bloom: The Shadow of a Great Rock: A Literary Appreciation of King James Bible   How does an engaged work transcend...

  Amrit Gangar    The title might sound as unpredictable as Renu Saluja’s ‘cuts’ in the films that she edited in her short but brilliant career in Mumbai. Renu Saluja (1952-2000) sailed...