Lately, I have been toying with the idea of coText. What is coText, by the way? If we, letting ourselves to be self-aware post-colonists for the time being, choose to objectify the text as...
When I first saw David Baptiste Chirot’s rub-art be calls “rub-beings”, a continuous string of images drew across me – images garnered from Bengali poems I grew up reading. The sweet-shop with a backside...
Postmodernism claimed to have saved poetic arts from the sealed museum showcase, poetry was shattered thus by its forces of uncertainty and dissent. The retrieved vase fell from the edge of the table into...
The 1960s marked an era of literary movements in Bengal - namely Shruti (poetry-centric), Shastravirodhi (focussed more on new modernist fiction), Dhbangsakalin (magazine KhuddhArta), Nimsahitya etc. Poetry magazines became increasingly commonplace. Pabitra Mukhopadhyay’s Kabipatra...
