Category: Hear! Hear!
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A Death in the Forest: A Review
Paromita Goswami’s short stories are resplendent, each shining in their own light of local language and deep cultural sensibilities of the native and indigenous population of the forests of Chandrapur, Maharashtra.
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Semeen Ali Reviews The Opposite Bank and Other Poems
Poet: Ramchandra Pramanik Translator: Sreejata Paul Publisher: Antonym Collections Poetry often emerges from two impulses. One is deeply personal, where the poet dives into their own experiences, bringing forth pearls of wisdom from an intimate well, placing the self at the heart of the poem. The other is observational, where the poet turns their gaze…
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Review of Language Has No Homeland
Language Has No Homeland Poet: Aditi Dasgupta Reviewed by: Malini Bhattacharya Aditi Dasgupta’s Language Has No Homeland is a slim book, albeit an inventive and cadenced one. This is a collection of poems that builds bridges across languages and the unique emotional semantics that each represents. We meet Bengali, Tamil, Urdu, Hindi, Marathi, Assamese, Bodo,…
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Book Review: Undecember
Review of Amit Shankar Saha’s Undecember: The Thirteenth Month Reviewed by Subashish Bhattacharjee In Undecember: The Thirteenth Month, Amit Shankar Saha extends the calendrical imagination that shaped his earlier volume, Etesian::Barahmasi, into a liminal poetic space: an intercalary month, a surplus of time composed of “stolen days.” Conceived as the lunar adjustment that reconciles discrepancy,…
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Short Story by Riya Dubey
THE ALBRECHT FAMILY DISAPPEARANCE- CARLSON DETECTIVE Rain had been falling since morning, and the power was out again. In Levington, that was nothing new—winter storms came and went, and people had learned to live with the dark. Now and then, a crossbill called from somewhere unseen, but mostly the town lay quiet. Time felt slow…
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The Forsaken: Translated by Pratyasha Sen
The Forsaken First published as “Upekhhita” in Parashuram Granthabali, Vol. 3. Fifth reprint, 2006. 3 Rhododendron Road, Ballygunge. Outside, it had been pouring incessantly. Inside her drawing room, Garima Ganguly sat near the piano. Facing her was Chotok Roy, seated on an easy chair. The drawing room had scant furniture. Garima’s father had recently received…
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“…To Write As Sharp As A Knife..”
Candice Louisa Daquin in conversation with artist, poet and activist, Dr. Jharna Choudhury “The mouth of a needle” is the embroidery activist Dr. Jharna Choudhury’s first collection of short poems in English. Choudhury has been writing since 2011; and she split her poetry manuscript into two books. The first, “the mouth of a needle,” was…
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Of Passions & Provocations
Filmmaker and Writer Devashish Makhija’s New Book Bewilderness is a Homecoming to Poetry
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Issue X : March 2026
Women-Nature Nexus: Ecology and its Feminist Undertones Guest Editor: Aditee Sharma Concept Note Long before the emergence of environmentalism as a movement and a social thought, there were women who stood for it amid life and loss. This call emerges from those stories that refuse to remain buried in the archives. It is an invitation…
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