Visual Spaces
In a world where apocalypse seems destined as the fate of all life, the artistic creations of Arpana Caur speak on behalf of the earth with a moral force so essential and urgently essential to embrace, says Guest Editor Alok Bhalla…[Read More]…
Literary Trails
In the midst of violence and war, a persistent pandemic and a looming environmental apocalypse Shanta Acharya’s poems both remind us of the gratitude we owe to this Earth and the ineffable beauty of its creative mysteries…[Read More]…
Bookshelf
In Amitav Ghosh’s fiction and non-fiction, parables as an art of rhetoric work to reconfigure official Western versions of history, politics and culture. Suhasini Vincent looks at his work as an alternative site for a new epistemology of the environmental crisis confronting the world.…[Read More]…
Literary Trails
Intizar Husain captures the mysterious evocation of Nature’s ways viewed through the bewildered and wondrous innocence of a boy bursting with curiosity. Translated by M. Asaduddin …[Read More]…
Literary Trails
The jungle and its inhabitants the Gonds serve as the backdrop to this tale of post-partition unrest and tension across the border in Intizar Husain’s tale of looming apocalypse. Translated by Alok Bhalla & Vishwamitter Adil. …[Read More]…
Literary Trails
Alok Bhalla, Vinod Kumar Shukla and Asghar Wajahat articulate their visions, paying tribute to this Earth in the only way poets can, through slanted truths. Guest edited and translated by Alok Bhalla.…[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
How to turn the usually sticky, bubble-gum-like mind into the solidity of objective space, true in its opacity, or into the fineness of ether with its true openness? So that thoughts, doubts, fear do not haunt and inhabit it? Bibhu Padhi searches for this state of grace.…[Read More]…
That’s Life!!!
Radio communications made their appearance in India in 1929 with the British – controlled Indian Broadcasting Company, and with emergence of regional centres such as the Calcutta Radio Station. Against this backdrop Nandini Bhattacharya examines the importance of Manimala, the epistolary novelette by Leela Mazumdar in a dialogic format produced by the structure of letters to the radio hosts seeking advice, guidance companionship …[Read More]…
Between The Lines
The unprecedented farmers’ struggle that began at the borders of India’s capital Delhi on November 26, 2020, and which won a historic victory over corporate communalism a full one year and fifteen days later was by far the largest, the longest and the most powerful nationwide farmers’ struggle in history. Ashok Dhawale on its distinctive features…[Read More]…