The main story revolves around the lives of sex workers, or devadasis, and her determination to make them self-sustainable and to get rid of the label of dishonour that was attached to them.
Behind closed doors: When ‘happily ever after’ becomes a hostage situation
Kolkata, My Endless City is a collection of binary photographs by renowned photojournalist Rajib De. This book is an ode to the city and an archive for the future metropolitan who would like adventures in the everyday mundane.
Navamalati’s eleventh collection of poems, I’d Once Erased Those Margins, is a thought-provoking exploration of the quiet spaces between emotions, a deeply intimate journey that leads readers into the crevices of her mind and consciousness, delving into the poet’s longing for love, friendship and peace.
Ari Gautier’s first novel was The Thinnai (Le Thinnai in the French original), a novel that brings the Franco Indian world of Kurusukuppam, its people and streets. Nocturne Pondicherry takes us back to that world once again
Jayanta Mahapatra's poems give us a whole semiotics of life’s bare face with the outside world, making them candid yet indirect reflections of the hard times we live in.
The novel looks into human desire. It is complex. Like shapeless water, it can take on the shape of whatever vehicle it is carried in.
Ramachandaran visited China many times from 2013–19 and was a journalist in China with China Daily, Global Times and China-India Dialogue from 2008–2016, thus well placed for an objective view of the bilateral relationship.
The reviewer is an associate professor of English, Tarakeswar Degree College, University of Burdwan.
Fire on the Ganges is an insightful yet compassionate book that hits hard with its bare facts by examination of the systemic gaps within a highly stratified society that systematically marginalises the specific community of the Doms, depriving them of even the basic remnants of humanity.
