The moon is full. The flowers bloom. Beneath the kadam tree The horses dance and elephants, too The li’l girl’s wedding spree! Imagine rural Bengal, some four hundred years back. It’s dark and...
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...
If we think about language as a concept we come to an endless world of abstraction. From the first formations of sound as a tool for communication to get to their structure as the...
When Advaita Mallabarman, a well known Bengali Dalit writer having a Malo origin, began working on his seminal work, ‘Titas Ekti Nadir Naam’, some of his friends discouraged him by saying that Manik Bandyopadhyay’s...
SUMMARY Insider-outsider experiences of various poets in the field of writing as an insider as well as an outsider. PANELISTS K. Satchidanandnan (Malayalam), Meena Alexander (English), Subhro Bandopadhyay (Bangla), Sharmila Seyyid (Tamil), Padma...
Summary The panel discussion on ‘Dogri folk songs, literature and theatre’ took place at at ILF Samanvay 5th edition of the annual IHC Indian Languages Festival (26th – 29th Nov.’15). The panel looked at...
Summary An engrossing conversation to explore the possibilities of a strong ground for translation in the country took place at ILF Samanvay 5th edition of the annual IHC Indian Languages Festival (26th – 29th...
Samanvay- the Indian Languages Festival began yesterday at the India Habitat Centre amidst great enthusiasm. This is the 5th edition of the festival and it takes place from the 26th to 29th of November....
“Without exile, who am I?” -Mahmud Darwish (from Bhuchung Sonam’s essay, Exile is a lonely pen) Tibet is a country that has had a long history of pain and suffering. With more than 1,50,000...
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....
