GENDER PERSPECTIVE ON HOME AND THE WORLD
Our family owned the town’s oldest tannery. It had a large backyard. We dealt in leather. We bought the hides of dead animals and sold cured leather. The business was good. Carts rumbled in and out of our yard at all hours of the day. Throughout the day …
The Tanner’s Yard — Deepak Sharma Read MoreAdiguru Saṃkaracarya (788-820) in his devotional composition Nirvanaṣtakaṃ announces that individual being ‘I’ is Supreme Being ‘Siva’ (Sivoham, Sivoham…), but in his philosophical system, Advaita Vedānta he says that this world is a false superimposition on the pure Supreme Reality. The world is a falsehood (anṛta) and …
Like a City reflected in a Mirror: Absolute Non-Dual Philosophy of Kashmir Trika Śaivism — Dr. Alka Tyagi Read MorePortrait of the Day It has rained all day All day water has poured from the swollen eyes of universe Little Shantu has asked more than once If it is the tears of or grieving mother He wonders if the still laments for the living As living ones do for the dead All day, The branches of the …
Portrait of the Day — Savita Singh Read More“My identity is in question here….I don’t overrate my scholarship but yes, I trust my knowledge. Let people object, let them say that I am an overreacher, let them say that I am the first in the Rishikul, in the lineage of saint Vachkanu to participate in a shastrartha, a hermeneutic debate and that too with this scholar of repute, …
C/O Swat Valley By Manisha Kulshrestha Read MoreThe shadow of my memory “… An unreliable shadow of memory”- Italo Calvino (Tr: William Weaver ) I am the poet, fixing images From the abyss of time Into the canvas of the past Where Myth and History are miscible With the precision and swiftness of A fork-tongued cobra strike. To retrieve my memory; I tame an eagle …
Cape of Good Hope- Chandra Mohan Read MoreIn a dramatic sequence towards the end of Rabindranath Tagore’s play “Natir Puja” (1926; translated into English as “The Dancing Girl’s Worship”), the court dancer Srimati is publicly humiliated, forced to perform before the altar where the Buddha was once worshipped, in violation of her faith in Buddhism. But she subverts the situation, casting off her costume and ornaments as …
Re-writing Tagore: Translation as Performance – Radha Chakravarty Read Moreआठवें दशक की कविता की केन्द्रीय संकल्पना क्या है? वह कौन सी दृष्टि या परिकल्पना है, जिसके तहत आठवें दशक की कविता एक नया आयाम रचती है. आठवें दशक की कविता का प्रस्थान आज हमारे लिए इतना महत्वपूर्ण क्यों हो गया है ? आठवें दशक के कवियों और कविताओं से गुजरते हुए ये प्रश्न सहज ही पाठक के अतःकरण …
यहाँ रोज कुछ बन रहा है — अच्युतानंद मिश्र Read MoreOn 1 December 2019 Krishna Paul turned 90. I had been interacting with her for a while by then, not only basking in her love and warmth, but having long heartfelt conversations with this amazing woman who shared Joginder Paul with us. A couple of months before her mother’s birthday, on a sudden impulse, the Pauls’ daughter, Sukrita, …
Krishna Paul’s Conversations with Chandana Dutta Read Moreमेरी भूमिका पूर्व निर्धारित है मेरी भूमिका लिख कर रखे हुए हैं मेरे संवाद मुझे केवल इन्हें याद रखना है और इस तरह अदा करना है कि सुनने या देखने वालों को लगे कि- नदी अपनी स्वाभाविक गति से बह रही है आसमान पूरी तरह साफ़ है एक-एक करके – छिटके हुए सारे तारे गिने जा सकते हैं उस …
प्रवीण चन्द्र शर्मा की पाँच कविताएं Read More27 जून 2020, वसुंधरा परमादरणीय बाबा साहब, मन कर रहा था कि अपको ‘जयभीम’ के साथ संबोधन करूं, तभी याद आया कि आपको अपनी जय-जयकार पसंद नहीं थी. इसलिए आपको ‘नमोबुद्धाय’ कह रही हूं. बाबा साहब, मैं कुछ कहना चाहती हूं, पर किससे कहूं? और कौन सुनेगा मेरी? यदि कोई सुन भी लेगा तो …
बाबा साहब डॉ. भीमराव अम्बेडकर जी के नाम पत्र- रजत रानी मीनू Read More