Dr. H.S. Chandalia The Songs of India and Abroad/ Sagar Mal Gupta/ Prakash Book Depot, Bareilly, 2019/ Rs. 180 The Songs of Rajasthan and Other Poems/ Sagar Mal Gupta/ Prakash Book Depot, Bareilly,2020/ Rs. 325 Songs of Rajasthan and Other Poems (2020) and The Songs of India and the World (2019) published by Prakash Book […]
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Folk Ballads Travel Across National Boundaries: A Report on Two day seminar on Folk Ballads
Dr H.S. Chandalia Folk Ballads are such popular narratives which are sung and travel across national boundaries. They reach beyond the language in which they are composed and get a new form in another language. There is a need to preserve the tradition of the folk ballad singers who are leading a tough life. There […]
Nature, Human and Education: The Other Name of Introspection is Monishar Pathorer Bon
Snigdha Bardhan Title: MONISHAR PATHORER BON, Author: Nigel Hughes, Translator: Dipen Bhattacharya, Publisher: Monfakira, Number of pages: 100, Price: Rs.120/- Nigel Hughes, Professor of Earth Science (The University of California, Riverside) is the author of Monisha and The Stone Forest and Dr Dipen Bhattacharya has translated it into Bengali, named Monishar Patharer Bon. Bhattacharya’s spontaneous […]
The Red Clock
Aritra Ghoshal “Lavanya, where did you keep my denim trouser?” yelled Jayesh with his “Mein Kampfed” chauvinism. There’s no reply. “Lavanya! can’t you hear me? I said where’s my trouser?” Huh, there’s nothing but silence. Tik – tik – tik – tik – tik – tik. “Bloody bitch! why the f**k aren’t you responding?” Out […]
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Teacher or Guide : A Student’s View
Syed Parvez Rahaman A teacher is not a teacher, Unless he knows how to teach me, Many say that education is not a medicine that teacher will make you eat, But I say then don’t call them teacher, Rather confer them the title of a guide, As they just show us the way right, Teaching […]
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Life: As it is
Sk Benajir It’s hell out here! Come feel the scars for once , If you dare You know how it is here Here, you gnaw with the thoughts of expectations That is never going to to be the reality ‘cause you will miss each mark by an inch Still your hope never dies And you […]
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A Sonnet on Creative Intelligence
Debashish Chattopadhyay You think of the ‘noise-cancellation’ featureOnly in your ‘ear-phone box’What about the noises of subconscious nature?Can’t think out of the box! Prufrock can become modern HamletCan ‘Shantih’ replace ‘the waste land’?Thousand questions were asked to eternal ProphetTo discover the essence of the inner wizard-land. The creative intelligence operating from withinYour eyes are open […]
“Whiteness Studies” and the paradigm of “Black Aesthetics”
Dr Ayan Mondal Abstract Black aesthetics in respect of Afro-American literary criticism has always been a wide subject which morphed into diverse critical tendencies since the blacks gained considerable impetus to resist white hegemony. Not only literature ranging from different Afro-American slave narratives to bold protest narratives, but black-literary criticism as a whole became a […]
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A Benediction
Aditi Bandyopadhyay O Nature! thou art so beautiful and serene in the garb of resplendent green. The pleasant breeze blows and rivers in mazy motion flows to inspire the mellow, to have with ye a rendezvous… O Nature! thou art a cameo under the Sun against the widespread horizon that at once brings to […]