Bengali Literature Archives

That mysterious force inside us…

What are these marks on the wall? A doodle? A diagram? Does thisinscrutable drawing, if we can call it one, say something? Is there a…

Lampblack doodle and a detective connecting dots

‘I set the story in the 1940s. When one could still hear in the middle of the night the bells of mail-runners in the distance.…

‘In contemporary media, the dog loves eating the dog’

We attack each other on television; we gloat when a colleague is attacked or arrested; we have no empathy when journalists are jailed; we have…

‘I am not a ‘doomsdayer’. Urdu has not merely survived but flourished. Urdu is not dead, or dying. It is still the language of the heart and soul of India’

No matter how sick at heart we might occasionally get, no matter how depressed – we see it as our self-appointed task to keep on…

The Dark Shadow of Social Media on Adolescence

‘The online pressure to look perfect, pretty and attractive can lead to insecurity, bad faith, emotional burn-out’ Aayushi Rana is a postgraduate in History from Aligarh…

Echoes of Patriarchy: The Unseen Reign of Kashmir’s Elderly Women

The power of this dynamic, isn’t simple; it isn’t always gentle and can’t be justified through the lens of feminism. This power dynamic isn’t soft;…

A Transformation in the Republic of Inertia

Short story: Those who were less charitable, pointed out that perhaps it was all the doing of Bharat Pradhan’s scriptwriters who believed that renouncing the…

No cloudburst in Delhi

It is clear by the fact check that the viral video, depicting people running, in order to save themselves from a sudden cloudburst in Delhi,…

Israeli strike on hospital ‘further cripples’ Gaza’s fragile health system

Israeli strike on hospital cripples Gaza’s fragile health system

Another deadly strike on a hospital in southern Gaza on Tuesday has further jeopardized already limited access to lifesaving medical care in the ravaged enclave…

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