Visual Spaces
H. Masud Taj, Toronto-based architect, poet –calligrapher, who grew up in Mumbai, India like Mayank Bhatt pays tribute through his art.…[Read More]…
Personal Notes
On August 1, Mayank Bhatt, Toronto-based writer of fiction and essays died after a protracted battle with pancreatic cancer and other ailments. He was a little over 60 years old. A tribute to an indomitable spirit by Ashoak Upadhyay/The Beacon…[Read More]…
Personal Notes
Mayank Bhatt explores coping with emotional desolation and economic destitution, the causes of pain, and sadness in this last essay in the series of his journey as a cancer patient that began mid-2020…[Read More]…
Bookshelf
Mayank Bhatt finds that in The Great Hindu Civilization – Achievement Neglect Bias and the Way Forward, Pavan V. Varma speaks softly about Hindu Satya (acceptance and tolerance) but carries a big ideological stick of Hindutva (bigotry and intolerance)…[Read More]…
Bookshelf
Mayank Bhatt reviews Canadian author, poet, editor, lexicographer Fraser Sutherland’s memoir about his son’s unsuccessful battle with schizophrenia, and recalls a few anecdotes that made Fraser at once endearing and infuriating to his friends …[Read More]…
Personal Notes
Mayank Bhatt faces his first bad scan results after eighteen months of chemotherapy kept a fragile status quo. Navigating sombre thoughts about his treatment, he continues to explore love and relationships, friendship and forgetting, dates and deadlines...[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]…
Personal Notes
Mayank Bhatt discovers he has pancreatic cancer and confronts questions of life and living, death and dying, the pain and hope of treatment and what it means to be an atheist…[Read More]…
Between the Lines
Lokmanya Tilak’s death centenary (August 01) and the end of the annual celebratory Ganesh Chaturthi procession he launched prompts Mayank Bhatt to re-visit that leader’s shifting stances and his role as ‘nationalist’ leader. …[Read More]…
Personal Notes
Suketu Mehta author of ‘This Land is Our Land…” talks with Mayank Bhatt and Gavin Barrett in Toronto about immigrants and their place in a turbulent world.…[Read More]…
Literary Trails
In the first of two short fictions Mayank Bhatt’s protagonist recalls Dadi, his “only parent” as his greatest teacher who taught him nothing. ..Read More…
Arthur in the rains
Literary Trails
A young man from Bombay reluctantly takes a job as a storekeeper in a sugar factory in Bahedi, a North Indian town where the past catches up with him in ways he could never have imagined. …[Read More]…