POETRY / ‘The Unnamed’ and ‘Incomplete’: Two poems
28 November 2025, 19:31 PM
Books & Literature
LITERARY CURTAINS / Adaptation as misrecognition: ‘Siddhartha’ between text, philosophy, and stage
28 November 2025, 19:30 PM
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BOOK REVIEW: FICTION / Between home and elsewhere
26 November 2025, 18:00 PM
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BOOK REVIEW: NONFICTION / An inter-cultural romance
26 November 2025, 18:00 PM
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ESSAY / Lessons from our literary girls: Why freedom framed as favour is no freedom at all
26 November 2025, 11:18 AM
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ESSAY / When old patriarchies wear new faces
25 November 2025, 12:57 PM
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INTERVIEW / Reclaiming the unwritten: Kanika Gupta on colonialism, embodiment, and the art of remembering
22 November 2025, 11:51 AM
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CREATIVE NONFICTION / Of jasmines, departure, and desire for a déjà vu
21 November 2025, 18:28 PM
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REFLECTIONS / Moon, memory, manifesto: A personal, lyrical essay on Atrai
21 November 2025, 18:28 PM
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BOOK REVIEW: NONFICTION / Contested words, painful genealogies
19 November 2025, 18:00 PM
Books & Literature
Writing about writing, history, and Palestine
In The Message, Coates details several experiences from his travels to Senegal and Palestine, his correspondences with a teacher in South Carolina fighting against a school board’s push to ban books with topics deemed controversial, and his personal takeaways from these events.
12 November 2025, 11:41 AM
An eco-critical look at Sultan: Reading the manuscript of ‘Sultan Er Krishi Jiggasha’
With the aid of Duniyadari Archive, Pavel Partha’s soon-to-be-published book Sultan Er Krishi Jiggasha is a new addition, which looks at Sultan’s work from an eco-critical perspective.
8 November 2025, 11:43 AM
The risk of becoming: Notes on translation and transformation
Translation is risk, and poetry is the highest form of risk
7 November 2025, 18:33 PM
Somewhere but not here
Tea breaks,
the perks of a bike ride.
7 November 2025, 18:00 PM
Zia Haider Rahman on his award-winning novel at NSU’s Colloquium series
The Department of English and Modern Languages (DEML) at North South University hosted a session of its Colloquium series titled “Zia Haider Rahman in Conversation with Dr Nazia Manzoor” on Tuesday, this week.
7 November 2025, 11:48 AM
Between expectations and choice
Translation is a bridge to connect different cultures and their literatures. It’s a medium to reflect the gems of a country’s literature around the globe.
5 November 2025, 18:00 PM
A story of separation and return: Clare Adam on crafting ‘Love Forms’
Accompanying the Booker Prize long-listed novels of this year, Clare Adam’s <I>Love Forms </I>(Faber, 2025) offers an enthralling tale of Dawn, the protagonist of the novel, who is in a lifelong search for her long-lost illegitimate daughter. Although Dawn continues her strides in life from gett
5 November 2025, 18:00 PM
Defining moments
Ogilvie reveals that the method of its construction: a global appeal for words from any and all English speakers, ensured that the language of the periphery flooded the metropole.
5 November 2025, 12:08 PM
Remembering Raza Ali
Raza Ali will be deeply missed—for his words, his warmth, and his unwavering faith in the power of literature to connect us. His voice, both written and spoken, will continue to guide and inspire all of us who had the privilege of knowing him.
4 November 2025, 13:36 PM
Discourse around the Heathcliff casting
Heathcliff portrays a very unique strain of masculinity. It is not one that comes from being a man in a patriarchal society, nor from one being amongst majority women.
2 November 2025, 12:00 PM
A prayer for Mauritius
Written in deep striking prose, Saramandi lends her authorial voice to the changing dynamics of her life whose future is described as “a line that turned out to be a loop” similar to the fate of her homeland.
1 November 2025, 13:30 PM
Paper dragons, haunted theaters, one very large cicada: An introduction to SCPs
One of the weirder relics of my early days on the internet—one that I'm certain many if not most of my fellow netizens around my age are quite familiar with—is Creepypasta:
31 October 2025, 19:37 PM
5 books on women’s everyday terror to read this Halloween: The horror that persists
The violence is domestic, institutional, and often unnamed—carried out by people who look nothing like monsters.
31 October 2025, 13:45 PM
The ghosts still sing in Shantinagar
"The ghosts still sing in Shantinagar" is one of the winning entries for our Halloween themed writing contest, 'Spooktober: Bhooter Adda'
31 October 2025, 04:45 AM
8 books to read if you’re fascinated by the louvre heist
These stories prove one thing: art theft never goes out of fashion.
30 October 2025, 13:30 PM
“Curious love letter”: Wole Soyinka responds after US cancels visa
He responded to the situation with grace, mentioning “I like people who have a sense of humour".
30 October 2025, 10:45 AM
From sacred art to consciousness: A leap too far
When Dan Brown finally returned in 2025 with The Secret of Secrets—the sixth Robert Langdon adventure—the world that devoured The Da Vinci Code (Doubleday, 2003) had mixed reactions to the story.
29 October 2025, 18:00 PM
A play within a space opera
When I first learned about Hamlet: Book One of the Post-ApocalypticSpace Shakespeare by American novelist Ted Neill, I was immediately intrigued. While not the first science fiction Shakespeare, Neill’s attempt to produce a complete series represents a noteworthy Shakespeare project. As of September 2025, Neill has published his version of Hamlet, Othello, and Twelfth Night with “many more” listed as planned. He appears to want to produce all 37 plays.
29 October 2025, 18:00 PM
Prelude, Puzzle and Premonition
Uketsu, the anonymous writer and a macabre enthusiast, fictionalizes himself as the protagonist in the novel Strange Houses, where he is introduced to a series of unpleasant experiences in several houses through his acquaintances.
29 October 2025, 12:12 PM
Everyone is migrating to Substack, and you should too
It’s very likely that Substack will become the “drawing room” of intellectuals and creative elites.
28 October 2025, 13:24 PM