A Legend Passes Away. A Legacy Remains. Forever.
by Avijit Dutt The most telling image is of this towering intellectual holding up a poster of him being an Urban Naxal too! Protesting the […]
Category: Books
Swapan Kumar and his Sleuth — The Cornerstone of Bangla Pulp Fiction
by Chitto Ghosh I had a collection of the one and only Samarendra Nath Pandey alias Swapan Kumar’s trend-setting crime pulp fictions—120 of them, […]
Subhas Mukhopadhyay: Portrait of a People’s Poet
Was he the poet Tagore had been waiting for? No idea, although Subhas, like him, posited his faith in man, especially those who constituted the majority…hapeless, homeless, landless, jobless and oppressed always.
United We Revolt
Art and literature have always been instrumental in awakening the unconscious souls, by
reinforcing the spirit of existence and creating pits to bury the laws of establishment. The
artists exhibit his emotions against fanaticism, bigotry, dictatorship, extortion and other acts
of atrocities through their artworks or words. Therefore, words do not only pierce through the
confined space, but they hit you hard where the wound never healed.
Ayn Rand & Me
We first met when my friend handed me the iconic book ‘The Fountainhead’. I wasn’t a literature person then; this friend was my only medium […]
