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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...

Precarity against Heroic Virility: Ramkumar Chetankranti’s Veerta Par Vichlit

  Prasanta Chakravarty   “पावर में एक कमी थी, तन्हाई से डरती थी” ~ आर. चेतनक्रांति (There was but one lack in power, despondency terrified it) ~ R. Chetankranti   “Who will say, and in...

In a Future April: An Excerpt

Paramita Ghosh Excerpt from: In a Future April (a novel) © Radical Notes radicalnotes@radicalnotes.com Aakar Books, 2017 ISBN 978-93-5002-510-9 ***                                                    ...

Creatures in Shards: Elem Klimov’s ‘Come and See’

  HUG “And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, ‘Come and see.’ And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and...

RATI CHAKRAVYUH: DISSOLVING NOTHINGNESS INTO NOTHINGNESS, शून्य में शून्य

  Amrit Gangar Finding a form, a cinematographic Mandala! सिनेमॅटोग्राफिक मंडलः स्वरूप का निजी आत्मसात और निरंतर खोज़।   All of Ashish Avikunthak’s cinematographic work seems to be held by a...

I wonder whether you can do commerce without knowing book-keeping?

Humanities Underground speaks to Amlan Dasgupta about work and non-work. ——————– Prasanta Chakravarty:  What has been your sense of institutional life in...

The Constellation of Singularity

  Adrita Mukherjee, Mantra Mukim and Rohan Kamble   *** For any new form of art, which in its epoch might be censured as being too ‘political’, in its trajectory from the streets, where it...

MOMENT, META-MOMENT AND THE MINIATURE: NAINSUKH, THE ARTIST AND

  Amrit Gangar _______________   This is a beautiful moment indeed, beautiful because it connects me with yet another moment not in a distant past, but nonetheless in भूतकाल   – in the...

The Circle of Tyrants (selections from Caligulan)

Ernest Hilbert _________________ Siege of Fort Mifflin (Battle of Mud Island) A squadron of the vaunted British empire Fell prey to mud, to wind and vengeful fire. A ship-of-the-line ran aground and...

Songs from 26H: humanitiesunderground speaks to Moushumi Bhowmik, On Her

Songs from 26H, Home recordings of Moushumi Bhowmik–with Oliver Weeks, Satyaki Banerjee and Sukanta Majumdar releases soon. After a long hiatus of fifteen years, this is Moushumi’s fourth...

एक गुमनाम गुरुकुल—A Nondescript Gurukul

HUG takes an early (and limited) look into Anil Yadav’s book सोनम गुप्ता बेबफ़ा नहीं है—Sonam Gupta is Not Unfaithful (Antika Prakashan, 2017). _____________________     Life oozes in small...

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