The ILF Samanvay 2015 seeks to explore the work of the creative individual with language as a transverbal medium, spanning across literature, philosophy, music and the visual and performing arts. Writer, Dancer and Poet...
Hir’s birth was very different from the other births that happen around galaxies far and near. Still in the making, but mentally perceptive already, one day Hir began to wonder about being born. It...
Thana and Thapada were travellers. On their way towards the plains, they met a farmer who had harvested his last strawberry yield. Tempted by the lush fruit, Thana asked the farmer to sell them...
Hir says Hir would be born a quarter diamond-shines into the future. Hir glides through time, space, sex and ear-piercing patterns; and can be spotted across demographics and time-frames squatted on the floor with...
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...
Post Modernism diminishes every absolute to relativistic practicality. On the contrary, rampant fanaticism weighs every belief on an absolute scale. For example: Frantic political compulsion forces the devoted ultra-right to diminish every act of...
A famous Zen quote by Dogen Zenji goes like this: “We gain enlightenment like the moon reflecting in the water. The moon does not get wet, nor is the water broken. Although its light...
Here was a man. Straight out of the blue. Narrating his woeful tale to me. A Tamil man from Mylapore. Owner of many riches. Embittered by family. Encircled by the snare of horoscope. Who...
“Your personal Spring’s flip-flops are lost in the Almond Mountain While my personal writing-stance is missing in the Almond Mountain” Recently, Utpal Kumar Basu— an eminent Bengali poet passed away. I was transcribing...
One’s mother tongue has the ability to cast this strange spell that conjures up a feeling, spanning across time, distance, people, stories and texts. I can speak from my own experience during my self-imposed...
