Literary Trails
Tarapada Roy (936-2007) was a prolific writer and his stories and sketches, mostly humorous, are still relished. His poetry almost never translated before, resonates with the song of the banal, finds flourish in the minor notes of irony that surround us, says Sayandeb Chowdhury.…[Read More]…
Literary Trails
Yashoda Nandan Singh translates from Hindi some more of Bhawani Prasad Mishra’s poems including “Mein Sannata Hoon. Also included is the translator’s own short poem.…[Read More]…
Literary Trails
In times of divisiveness and hatred, a poet finds the language of love and liberty in the filaments of mothers’ tongues, whispered, carved out of the earth and sweat, rising from silenced histories. Sabika Abbas tr. from Urdu by Pratishtha Pandya…[Read More]…
Literary Trails
Jayshree Misra Tripathi calls herself an ‘arranger of words’ pens verses that celebrate homecomings and homelands as more than just physical spaces; as journeys into memory and discoveries of rootedness. …[Read More]…
by H Masud Taj
That’s Life!!!
On World Children’s Day (November 20th) Calligrapher-Poet H Masud Taj dedicates three calligraphic quotes to the children dying in Gaza…[Read More]…
Literary Trails
Poet-artist Radha Gomaty artist of pain and ways of becoming offers up ‘A Beautiful Lie’ and two other poetic meditations with her line sketches, on journeys from some primal location that could end in pain, passion or million shards.…[Read More]…
Bookshelf
The Absent Color is an impossible invitation – difficult to accept and difficult to refuse; to ask questions and to be asked by questions in turn. a/nil is the poet of questions, whose songs are essentially cries in the wilderness, so that even stones lament, finds Saitya Brata Das.…[Read More]…
Between The Lines
Raimundo Panikkar (November 02 1918-August 26 2010) of Indo-Spanish descent was a theologian whose views on religion, the relationship between the divine and the human, on pluralism particularly, need to be studied for us to cope with the current narrow mindedness and toxicity. James L. Fredericks*
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Between The Lines
To correct a flawed policy of reliance on imports of palm oil the current policymakers opt for expansion of its domestic cultivation in the Northeast and Andaman Islands. That can only spell all-round disaster, warns Bharat Dogra…[Read More]…
Between The Lines
Contrary to its loud rhetoric of ‘national interest’, the current administration is all gung-ho on opening the doors to global corporates into the farm sector with an alacrity never witnessed before. The Bayer-ICAR pact is one such instance says Colin Todhunter.
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Bookshelf
The most militaristic power on the planet goes unchecked by a population indifferent to the destruction it causes around the globe and within. Joan Roelofs attempts an answer to this manufactured consent/indifference. Reviewed by Manali Chakrabarti…[Read More]…