David L. Curley in his immensely important book, Poetry and History: Bengali Mangal-Kavya and Social Change in Precolonial Bengal (2008) defined Mangal Kavya as...
The night drinks its last
breath of warmth.
He whistles his best-
some parodies he wishes
to scribble,
but the chill...
It permits him not
to jot down a few lines:
his...
They called their land ‘Mother’
And even ‘Mother’ they called their seas
‘The Ganga’, ‘The Saraswati’
They made the rivers female
And washed their sins in them.
My female...
Shivani Gupta, author of No Looking Back, is the founder of AccessAbility, a consultancy for promoting physical accessibility. She became involved after attending a...
I have shoes of all sizes..
Which fits you?
Choose them accordingly
You may lead or mislead through!
Based on your deeds
Be it good or bad,
They govern your...
Love, Love and Love
Is that not, what our great fathers and their fathers patronized!
A miraculous feeling indeed
Adorned by words so sweet,
Gestures so kind
No more...
You cry.You postA photographOn your Whatsapp StatusYou send offA scurry of WhatsappMessagesTo potential mourners.You gloatOn your movability.You writeA cathartic...