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WIVES
I was at a wedding this monsoon, mouth full of delicious food and ears stuffed with brass band litany — an Indian staple when I received a text message from Hawakal about a literary project they wished to discuss with me. I…
The Poet is the Rosary
Looking at Teji Sethi’s moss laden walls, Urvashi V. finds the collection cinematically significant. Click to buy Teji Sethi’s moss laden walls is a ceaseless collection of loss ripening (like a cuckoo’s voice and mango blossoms in one of her…
On Collegiality and Other Ballads: feminist poems by male and non-binary allies, edited by Shamayita Sen
Urvashi discusses one of the recent publications by Hawakal Click to buy Collegiality and Other Ballads is an object lesson. But, of course, men can do feminism. They must, or be content to let inequality prompt the flailing, lashing damage…
Sanjeev Sethi’s HESITANCIES
“The poetry in Hesitancies is poetry to be read and read again, to find the gems within, endlessly inventive, and with an ever present twinkle of self awareness that drags [Sethi] back from obscurity.” — Dreich Broad Buy your copy…
বিতান চক্রবর্তীর ‘ল্যান্ডমার্ক’
‘ল্যান্ডমার্ক’ আরম্ভ করলে শেষ না করে নিস্তার নেই। উপরি পাওনা ভাষার সাম্প্রতিকতা। সতেজ, সতর্ক, বুদ্ধিমনস্ক… — অধ্যাপক নবেন্দু সেন Click to buy যে সমাজে ওঁর বাস, সেই সমাজের মানুষজন ওঁর গল্পে হেঁটে চলে বেড়ায়, কথা বলে, ঝগড়া করে, কাঁদে-হাসে, মান-অভিমানের…