GENDER PERSPECTIVE ON HOME AND THE WORLD
Mother’s Day. A tradition from the west, embraced by some, mocked by some, as many mouths, so many opinions, to translate a popular Hindi idiom! However what’s indisputable is that there can be no argument against celebrating mother or mother-figure in one’s life, this day or any other day. We are because our mothers endured everything and championed us, they resisted …
Mothering The Earth- A Womanly Woman by Vineeta Sinha Read MoreTiny limbs smeared with my fresh enflamed blood oozing out of the womb, gushing in fact. I knew. I had lost you.Then and there. Shattered. The sadomasochist burped then, and snored in a short while, when the maid rushed us to the local hospital. I heard what you never uttered. Ahh heal ‘us’, protect ‘us’, you and me, me …
Letter to My Unborn Daughter — Nandini Sahu Read MoreRabindranath
Tagore should be honoured beyond his Bengali heritage and considered through
his worldview, travels and his English writing.
In 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 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 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