Love and Loss: In Bhaskar’s Light
By Debmalya Bandyopadhyay It is June, 2015. I am sixteen and I wear a rabbit’s heart. I ride an auto early each Monday morning to arrive at my mathematics tuition before anyone else. Our tutor is pleasantly surprised by my recent prowess in the subject. No one knows this yet, but there is someone in […]
Rowing Across Languages
Ten Bangla poems translated to English, on the occasion of World Translation Day
My Moonwashed Horizons: Moheen and I
Guest Author: Debmalya Bandyopadhyay The first month of college was lonely. Fresh out of school, I was suddenly in a place filled with strangers and had no one to really talk to. As I tried to leave my shell to make friends, I somehow got invited to ‘Music and Lyrics,’ a collaborative event by the […]
The Poet in Translation: Six Poems by Shankha Ghosh
On the poet’s first death anniversary, Debmalya Bandyopadhyay translates from the Bengali, six poems by Shankha Ghosh. Ever since I started reading, poetry has remained my metaphorical breadcrumbs to scatter on the path of time. I have learned to mark my days, weeks, and months with the poems I had read and been moved by, […]
Ganesh Pyne: A Dreamer of Darkness
Guest Author: Debmalya Bandyopadhyay One of the first artworks I have an active memory of viewing was Ganesh Pyne’s. I was about 10, browsing through an art magazine tucked away in a corner of our house. The ensuing article had used big words such as “surrealism” and “chiaroscuro” to speak of the artwork, and of […]