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...
_________________________________ *** Prasanta: This is a signal work Sumanta. This a great reason to celebrate poetry—that you, with able help from others, have been able to now bring out a...
HUG Speaks to Monika Kumar on her poem छुट्टियों में पेड़ों को भूल जाओ (During Absences, Abandon the Trees) ___________________________ During Absences, Abandon the Trees Up on the first floor of the...
_____________________________________________________ I’ll join with black despair against my soul, And to myself become an enemy. ~Queen Elizabeth in Richard III, Act II...
Arpit Kumar __________________ “Yet these will o’er their Jewish Liquor, About Religion Jar and Bicker; And rave till grown as Piping Hot, As the dull Grout o’er which they sot.” ~Ned Ward in ‘Vulgus...
Like the lighthouse glowing red–Lal Singh ‘Dil’ (stills from the film Kitte Mil Ve Mahi–Where the Twain Shall Meet, directed by Ajay Bhardwaj)...
Amarjit Chandan ____________________________ _________________ The history of the unequal relationship between English and Punjabi goes back to the early nineteenth century, when...
Cyprian Kamil Norwid _______________________ Cyprian Kamil Norwid, one of Poland’s most outstanding and original poets, was also an artist, dramatist and sculptor. Besides, he also used...
Devi Prasad Mishra ___________________ POEMS ARE PARAMOUNT Poetry is possible only in the mother tongue so said a poet One should stick to one’s tongue then lest one forget it...
Charles Bernstein ___________________ I am retiring in 2019, so take this as something of a swan song, or, anyway, duck soup. I leave the remainder of the theses to be filled in by you...
HUG interviews Anil Kumar Yadav _____________________________ HUG: What do you do? Anil: Mostly I live in the subconscious, or in semi consciousness, shall we say. Something silently...