24. 09. 2015

Infernal Encounters: Streets and Interpretation in Mrinal Sen’s Calcutta Trilogy

Somak Mukherjee   In the middle of 1971, when the city of Calcutta according to official figures were witnessing about 200 political killings a month, Mrinal Sen released Interview in some of the...

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20. 09. 2015

Quite A Few Struggles Remain Local

  Vyomesh Shukla  (for Pranay Krishna) --------------------------------------- A statement about a place means reaching that place. Only they understand the statement of that place whose place it is. The statement about one’s place...

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13. 09. 2015

The Letter Box

  [A letter to the editor published in the Bangla Magazine, Arek Rokom—আরেক রকম, Volume 16. 2013. Our gratitude to poet Mridul Dasgupta for bringing this to our notice.] ----------------------------------- Your first year’s...

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07. 09. 2015

About A Song: The Use And Abuse Of ‘Shopno Dekhbo Bole’

     Moushumi Bhowmik On 27 August I was at a workshop on copyright and the traditional arts at the West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences (NUJS) on our E.M.Bypass. They wanted...

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06. 09. 2015

The Crossover Is In The Mind

  Prasanta Chakravarty   The Filter People are mostly helpless, mostly tangled and messy. Irresponsible with our lives. With others’ lives too. We repeatedly falter. This, our human condition. This word—irresponsibility, and its...

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06. 09. 2015

A Horseradish Is No Sweeter Than A Radish

Anna Politkovskaya Selections from A Russian Diary. Time covered here: 2003-2004 [Anna could have left Russia. Family and friends had urged her to leave. Russian soldiers, police, oligarchs, criminal gangs, and the highest-ranking...

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28. 08. 2015

Nostalgia For The Light: The FTII Fiasco And A Cinema That Is Lost (1)

Parichay Patra   With the appointment of an obscure actor as the director of the most prestigious film school in India, an outrage engulfs social media and the said school erupts into a...

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20. 08. 2015

Champak, Certified

Shubham Shree   Comrade I   right through the evening, samosas wolfed pakoras, bread rolls gobbled a million cups of tea guzzled marking time for those mess bells at the age of 28,...

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08. 08. 2015

Notes From The Underground

  Avishek Parui    Picture a train leaving an underground station. Neither the name of the station nor the destination of the train should be important. Names and destinations rarely matter. You could...

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05. 08. 2015

We Are All Fragments Of The Sun

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26. 07. 2015

I Am Not A Man

    Manmohan Dutta  ---------------------------------------- What am I? I am a man. But I do not have humanity in me. In order to have humanity one has to master the art of showcasing...

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14. 07. 2015

Bridge and Door

Georg Simmel  ________________________ The image of external things possesses for us the ambiguous dimension that in external nature everything can be considered to be connected, but also as separated. The uninterrupted transformations of...

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07. 07. 2015

That Brass Of Our Inheritance

   Translations: Tarun Bhartiya  ____________________________________   Raghuvir Sahay   Laugh Laugh Laugh Instantly   Laugh - you are being watched,   Laugh  but not at yourself because its bitterness Would be noticed and...

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30. 06. 2015

Ritual Transgression, Historical Intervention, Ontological Exit

  Soumyabrata Choudhury     Prologue Even as I write this we are being sermonized from the Mount. We are being told to clean up: Swachh B. It has been a rather rapid...

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