Winners of GB Anthology 2018 ‘UNKEPT RESOLUTIONS’ Poetry Contest
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‘Unkept Resolutions’ 2018
Ananya Dhawan - (1st) THAT DREARY VIBE Contracted imagination, limited dreams. Bizarre thoughts and the wildest screams. Those extreme highs, those lowest lows the drama, the deceit, the perished soul, the pain- concrete. And you, hoping, demanding, wishing, but meticulously failing. Being pulled and torn, you are ailing. Ever and again, you feel the persistent beat. Holding on, more to defeat. (Ananya is a freelance
Lopa Banerjee’s ‘The Broken Home’ (Nastanirh)
The copious young clouds of the Bengali month of Asharh gathered in the sky. An inexplicable darkness crystallized in Charu’s room. Near the open widow, she bent over a notebook, scribbling in it, lonely, lost in her own furtive world. She didn’t notice when Amal surreptitiously
Author Sumana Roy believes in narratives of stillness
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
US based author Lopamudra Banerjee speaks to GB
• Why did you choose Rabindranath Tagore? Isn’t it difficult to translate his stories and already we have so many translations of his in the market? I have tried to address this question in the preface to my book ‘The Broken Home and Other Stories,’ where
Why author Shirshendu likes JK Rowling?
What Thakurmar Jhuli was to children of yesteryears, Harry Potter is to kids of today. Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay feels JK Rowling is a success because she has been able to regenerate the habit of reading among children and adults with her Harry Potter series. It doesn’t come as
Why was Sister Nivedita fascinated by Mahabharata?
Sister Nivedita’s historical book Cradle Tales of Hinduism was published in 1907. Though many think the stories are more like folklores that children tend to listen to from their grandparents and parents while in the nursery, the stories in reality have a deeper essence. And
Would you like some Ping Pong Diplomacy?
The Spring of 1971 brought the greatest geo-political realignment in a generation. After twenty-two years of antagonism, China and the United States suddenly moved towards a détente --- instigated not by politicians, but by ping pong players. Ping Pong Diplomacy proves that the dramatic shift can
Remember Ranu’s Prothom Bhag?
Most Bengali contemporary school students are familiar with Ranur Prothom Bhaag, a short storythat is part of school curriculum. When asked about the author’s name, most tend to say ‘Bibhuti Bhushan Bandopadhyay’ instead of Mukhopadhyay, though Bibhuti Bhushan Mukhopadhyay was one of the most widely-read