Sumana Roy’s first book, How I Became a Tree, a work of non-fiction, was published in India in February this year. Her poems and essays have appeared in Granta, Guernica, LARB, Drunken Boat, the Prairie Schooner, Berfrois, and other journals. She lives in Siliguri in
Long ago, in late 70s and early 80s,my days would be filled with anecdotes of North Eastern states of Assam and Arunachal Pradesh and I dream of those days even today.Such was the divine touch, that I tend to look for nature even in this
Snow in Kolkata? kidding? No.You read it right. A frigid zone in the midst of the city – that’s the latest addition to the city’s burgeoning family entertainment spots. Located on the top floor of Axis Mall, New Town, this is an ideal place for
When the media glare often turns these days to the question of triple talaq and how Muslim women need to be uplifted, few of us probably recollect Begum Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain. She was India’s first Bengali Muslim feminist, who inspired women to dream, and that
He is soon going to make provision for drinking water. But not just water, he also wants to arrange for a dustbin, a first-aid box and a fire extinguisher in his conventional rickshaw.But since his vehicle is inadequate to accommodate all these, he is going
How many times have you stumbled while writing in the Bengali font and wished there was some technology that could convert Bengali voice recordings into text? How many times have you cringed while writing in Roman font all that you wanted to pen in Bengali?
Travel into the world of literary puns and self-deprecating humour with none other than Shibram Chakraborty. And just have a laugh, and why not? This world seems to be missing humour these days. Remember how the author spelt his name? In that convoluted way: Shee-bram
All cottage industries are not lost! Even though modern technology tries to push them into oblivion. Take for example the grit of villagers of Daihat-Beragram, a small village in East Burdwan, where villagers have stuck to their traditional craft of making ropes from jute for
Palaeobiology? Devapriya Chattopadhyay often encounters this question and finds it quite amusing because Paleobiology is, after all a growing and comparatively new discipline. Devapriya patiently explains this is a field of study which combines methods and findings of the natural science biology with that of
She is a rickshaw-puller whose decision to storm the male bastion has earned her the ire of her male colleagues. When she started plying her rickshaw, she was harassed, insulted publicly and denied to park her vehicle at the scheduled stand. The males ganged up