“And When Did The Kindness End?”
Two poems - "The Moplah Speaks of Rivers" and "The Country of Infidel Airplanes"
Poetry Resurrects Itself: Translation of Two Poems by Jyoti Prasad Agarwala
Translations of two poems by the doyen of Assamese literature.
You Can’t Breathe, We Are Blind
I am not a hypocrite, India is just not the same, as the west.
“Cinema Will Help Us Survive”: Five Assamese Filmmakers on the COVID-19 Crisis
A new wave of Assamese cinema had just taken off when the COVID-19 crisis hit. Five prominent filmmakers talk about the damages caused and what the future looks like.
Crisis and Compassion: How Six Music Stars of Assam Are Spending Their Lockdown Days
The COVID-19 pandemic has had a crippling effect on Assam's music industry. How are the state's top music makers coping with that?
Hunger, Helplessness, Hope: How Five Young Assamese Poets Are Spending Their Lockdown Days
Jyotirmoy Talukdar speaks to five prominent young poets from Assam about how they see the COVID-19 crisis and the ensuing lockdown.
Festering Wounds and Little Closures
The India-Pakistan partition might have been “one of the greatest administrative operations in history” for Lord Mountbatten, but it was a calamitous event for many others.