That’s Life!!!
South Asian SF Dialogues series, curated by Tarun K. Saint for The Beacon is back with the next instalment of conversations, this one with Navin Weeraratne from Sri Lanka, who writes speculative fiction and military SF with a dose of hard science. Followed by a sampling of his fiction.…[Read More]…
That’s Life!!!
South Asian SF Dialogues series, curated by Tarun K. Saint for The Beacon has Vandana Singh, physicist and writer of speculative fiction engaged in a conversation on the importance of speculative fiction in re-imagining our world with alternative futures…[Read More]…
That’s Life!!!
Curated by Tarun K. Saint for The Beacon, South Asian SF Dialogues engage with Saad Z. Hossain, fantasy, weird fiction, and SF/speculative fiction writer from Bangladesh. Followed by ‘The Endless’ his short fiction…[Read More]…
That’s Life!!!
Curated by Tarun K. Saint for The Beacon, South Asian SF Dialogues series continues conversations about SF this time with Kehkashan Khalid.…[Read More]…
Personal Notes
A year after he learnt of his fatal illness, its traumatic coping and chemotherapy, Mayank Bhatt dwells further on his struggle to find meaning to life and death, in love and writing...[Read More]…
Between The Lines
Interrogating notions such as “national identity” through the lens of creative writers can be rewarding feels Nicola Pozza as he delves into texts of S. H. Vatsyayan ‘Agyeya’ (1911-1987), who had regarded essentialist categories–“Hinduism”, “Indianness” or “Hindutva” — with much suspicion. …[Read More]…
Between The Lines
Mridula Garg looks back at our violence on nature that has caused endemic catastrophes in which the poor suffer the most as India shows. She draws on writings she considers fables for our futures.…[Read More]…
Literary Trails
History, myth, fact and fable merge in Ashgar Wajahat’s story. In Afzal Ahmed Syed’s short poem words can stem an apocalypse of the dagger, herald a promise. Both translated by Alok Bhalla
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Between The Lines
Rooted in his faith and classical langauges, Abul Kalam Azad, should also be remembered for his love of Indic culture and his contribution to the institutional safeguard of its diverse expressions, says S. Irfan Habib …[Read More]…
Bookshelf
Set in the 18th century North India . Ruth Vanita’s novel, narrated by a courtesan-poet about her life-changing love for another courtesan-poet, weaves an exquisite web of conversations, songs as memories.…[Read More]…
Bookshelf
Climate destruction, not change, and an endemic pandemic mark our dreadful times. An artist cannot look away and Sudeep Sen confronts the nightmare upon us with his poetry, camera and hope. Suhasini Vincent reviews Anthropocene…[Read More]…
Bookshelf
Madhav Hada in this translation by Pradeep Trikha revisits long-neglected historical records and her poetry to reveal the real Meera Bai, less a romantic ascetic poet of legend, more an independent woman of substance. Reviewed by GJV Prasad
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That’s Life!!!
The archetypes in the Gond Ramayani are borrowed from the repertoire of Gond narratives, rituals, belief systems and socio-cultural moorings, It is not just a “Ramayan in inverse.” argues Molly Kaushal.…[Read More]…
Visual Spaces
Twenty years ago, Jangarh Singh Shyam, the Gond/ Pardhān artist took his own life. Akhilesh.traces his journey to fame as a sundering from “that mysterious world of Pardhān deities, which had, until then, sustained him. ” Translated by Aurogeeta Das. …[Read More]…