Confusions of a Young Indian Poet
Recent incidents all over the country open an old debate about the role of the intellectuals in the society. There is a direct fight going on and there is a tension between state machinery...
Category: Review
Rohzin: A Monologue to Soul
It is quite difficult to differentiate between outer and inner phenomenon in any creative piece of literature due to interwoven textual complexities. If a novel discusses history, religion, culture and society in specific perspectives,...
Chhoti Moti Baten: An Artistic Exploration of Urban AlienationA Review by Subho Maitro
Making a feature film based on a true story is a two edged sword. Firstly the viewers will always judge how close the director went to the reality, portray something call ‘authenticity’ and be...
Expansion of Shylock’s BusinessGlobalization, allegory, Shahzad Firdaus’s novel Shylocker Banijyo Bistar
War is the highest form of political struggle. When two nations, two ideologies, two worldviews or any number of them oppose one other and find no other solution to their irreconcilability, war becomes inevitable....
Mohini - The intolerable longing for loveA review of Pradipta Bhattacharya’s debut film Bakita Byaktigato (The Rest is Personal, 2013)
The night outside was buttery. Lavish fiesta lights had adorned the city. It was the day before the Durga Puja. Kolkata, once the foremost cosmopolitan city now reduced to a meagre global mufassil was...
A Nether NonconformistShamik Ghosh reviews Syed Mustafa Siraj’s cult Bengali novel “The Mythical Man”
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...
