Bare Face
A bold and stark poem by Tatjana I’ve been sick since the very start, I don’t care up to the very end of the game. They lost it. What...
Gnostic Sagacity
In this poem, Anca transcends her smaller self to realise her larger self. She moves from the person she is to the truth she seeks. I am the seeker of...
How was your day?
Piyali reminisces a day in her life and a casual conversation with her 16-year-old daughter, while working in the kitchen. What appears as an apparent listless day suddenly becomes very meaningful....
Exhuming the Self
An eminent poet, Ampat Koshy reviews Rochelle Potkar’s collection of poems, Four Degrees of Separation, for Different Truths. Rochelle needs to be read for her images, her vocabulary, her language, her...
Of a cat, a dog and two Children
In this nonsense verse, Sukanya talks of a cat, a dog and two children. In a town in Texas where the cactus grow wild there lived in that house...
Intensify Struggle against Caste Oppression: CPI(ML) – New Democracy
Struggle against caste oppression should be made part and parcel of all democratic struggles. It is very necessary to overcome division among the Indian people, caste division being main among them,...
The Bard and the Baul
Madhumita translates a poem of Tagore, whom she calls, Baul. She quotes a few sonnets of Shakespeare, who is better known as the Bard. Separated by continents and centuries, the...
Over 10 Mn Bonded Labourers in India Trapped in the Dark Dungeons of Inhumanity
It is inhuman that over 10 million bonded labourers have little or no hope. Trapped in the dark dungeons of debts, they are being ruthlessly exploited. The perpetrators of the...
The Caste-Class Divide on Water: Four Scenarios
The purity-pollution dichotomy of our society has gnawed into the social fiber of our country. A slice from Dr Bhim Rao Ambedkar’s life shows us how barbaric and uncouth we...
Massive Earthquake sends Tremors across India
At 7.25 pm, a massive earthquake, with its epicenter in Myanmar, send shock waves across India. While the tremors were strong in Guwahati and Kolkata, it was milder elsewhere. Here’s a...