Poems and Perspectives
Manisha Shrestha Research Scholar Sikkim University Moments Many a moments bloom before me I pass them uninterested. Pearls fall in...
Poems and Perspectives: Samya Karpha
Samya Karpha, completed his MSc in Chemistry from Calcutta University. However, his love for Bengali language and literature inspired him...
Poems - Lakshmisree Banerjee
Time Is it a cradle swinging in the void humming a lull-a-by to the ever joyful the ever crying baby of life now awake now asleep? Is it...
Poetry - Isis Zystrid
don't speak badly
of my father--
we are all created
on the premise of whims
not our own,
merely fragments of light until
we can elucidat
Lhamu's Scar & Memory
Lhamu’s Scar For years Amla would agonize over a scar on my sister’s forehead. Duplicating my aerial feat, Lhamu trips in mid air,...
Soliloquy of an Escapist
Sarbajit Sen, studied English literature, worked in a bank for quite a few tormenting years, and yet all along kept doing cartoons and...
Family Photograph & Voices of the Past
Family Photograph smooth to the finger paper-thin and silent the past comes back to life almost untouched barely a few specks of dust...
Paritosh
Picking my nose, scratching my head, With a batted face, biting my nails, I shut down my brain, Day’s office is over again. I pass by a...
(M)othering India: Mahasweta Devi's Unfinished Legacy (1926-2016)
Perhaps one needs to rephrase the dictum, “the pen is mightier than the sword,” when one encounters the world of Mahasweta Devi. She was...
Bir and the Reclusive Traveller
The last few metres of the road up to the Deer Park Institute was under construction, and I parked a short distance away from the gates....