That’s Life!!!
South Asian SF Dialogues series, curated by Tarun K. Saint for The Beacon features Soham Guha, bilingual speculative fiction writer and critic from Kolkata, on the genre’s rich SF tradition in Bengali and his own odyssey …[Read More]…
That’s Life!!!
South Asian SF Dialogues series, curated by Tarun K. Saint for The Beacon continues with Tashan Mehta, who holds that SF/fantasy help explore the realities of disenfranchised groups. Her debut novel, The Liar’s Weave, was shortlisted for the Prabha Khaitan Woman’s Voice Award. Alok Bhalla joins in.…[Read More]…
That’s Life!!!
This session features Sami Ahmad Khan, writer and SF critic/scholar from Delhi, India who teaches a course on this genre in conversation with Tarun K.Saint who curates this series for The Beacon. …[Read More]…
That’s Life!!!
Manjula Padmanabhan, playwright, comic strip artist, writer and columnist based in Delhi, India and the USA also writes literary and SF/speculative fiction converses with Tarun K. Saint who curates this series for The Beacon. …[Read More]…
Personal Notes
The existential core of concerns about the pandemic, Ratnakar Tripathy believes, is that it yokes and synchronizes two contrasting anxieties that have hit us in unison: having to imagine a world without us while visualizing ourselves dangling in a vacuum...[Read More]…
Literary Trails
Two poetic meditations on women striving for empowerment and “lost sounds,” discovering worlds beyond the heart and hearth. By bilingual poet and translator, Gopika Jadeja …[Read More]…
Bookshelf
Tomb of Sand marks Hindi novelist Geetanjali Shree’s latest fiction Ret Samadhi’s rendition into English by Daisy Rockwell. Both, texts, finds Mayank Jain Parichha are unique in their innovativeness and use of non-linearity to unfold the narrative. …[Read More]…
Visual Spaces
Sardar Udham offers Nandini Bhattacharya the terrain to examine the concept of Ressentment as an ethical response to violations and genocide, counterposed to the prevailing discourse of forgetting nd/or forgiving crimes against humanity…[Read More]…
Literary Trails
Sajida Zaidi who passed away in 2011 at the age of 84 was a noted educationist and Urdu poet. Riyaz Latif a bilingual poet offers up fresh translations of her philosophical and reflective verses.…[Read More]…
Literary Trails
On a surface viea a simple tale, M.A.Susila’s fiction turns out to be a lesson for these pandemic-driven times. Translated from Tamil by Lakshmi Kannan …[Read More]…
Literary Trails
In a response to Sudhir Chandra’s meditation on Gandhi’s first birthday and his assassination in Independent India, Ashoak Upadhyay finds evidence that his legacy lives, less in remembrance, more as moral quests.…[Read More]…