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January, 2023

Our Many Longings – Contemporary Short Fiction from Bangladesh: Edited by Sohana Manzoor

Sucharita Dutta-Asane reviews a collection of contemporary short fiction from Bangladesh edited by Sohana Manzoor.
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January, 2023

Temple Lamp: Verses on Banaras by Mirza Ghalib

Sekhar Banerjee reviews Mirza Ghalib's poems on Banaras
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December, 2022

Riding to Ladakh

The author experiences the idiosyncratic romance of riding 2 wheels into Himalayan valleys and crosses paths never crossed before.
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December, 2022

Shades of White

The author's courageous attempt to create a near-perfect amalgamation of colors, heritage and cultures is met with unforeseen hurdles. Helpless, the author calls herself a white woman with a dark story.
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December, 2022

Searching for Baldwin During Pride Month

The author takes a walk across bookstores in search for James Baldwin and for the metaphor it represents.
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November, 2022

Little friends, we made in God’s own country

The author and his wife dive deep inside the tranquility promised by God's own Country.
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November, 2022

When You Think of Tolstoy

The author's friendship with Ira, a Ukrainian, whom she had met on a Facebook page for animal lovers, turns into something far more than mere friendship as Russia wages War on Ukraine.
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November, 2022

War, Grief, and Ukrainian Independence

In Conversation with Oksana Zabuzhko’s “One Hundred Years of Solitude, or the Importance of a Story” and Olesya Khromeychuk’s A Loss
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October, 2022

Black Metamorphoses by Shanta Lee Gander

Jon Lawrence reviews Shanta Lee Gander's poetry collection, Black Metamorphoses.
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October, 2022

Almost Matilda

Having read Dahl's Matilda at 11 herself and then experiencing multiple cultures; the author goes through one end of the spectrum of not reading to the other end of the spectrum of becoming a bibliophile.
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October, 2022

The Heart is a City

The author's experience of living in a new city is marred and streaked by the effect the city has on her, mentally as well as physically. She traverses the divide as best as she possibly can and finds herself short of being understood.
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September, 2022

Birds of the Snows by Tarannum Riyaz

Sucharita Dutta-Asane reviews Tarannum Riyaz's novel, Birds of Snows.
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September, 2022

Why I Grew Up Wishing My Mother Were Dead

The author undertakes an uncomfortable journey of acceptance and tells a tale of a tumultuous relationship she shares with her mother.
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August, 2022

Evolution of Film Publicity Art

Film historian and archivist of vintage film memorabilia, SMM Ausaja, takes us down memory lane of the evolution of Film publicity in the Indian Movie Industry.
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August, 2022

In-between Emotions: A Triptych

The author translates, among other things, the relationship she shares with Bombay, the city of her birth; how she has accepted and made peace with the method in its madness.
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July, 2022

The Dreams of a Mappila Girl

In the preface to her memoir, the author B. M. Zuhara writes, “I grew up at a time when Muslim girls did not even have..
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July, 2022

Proximity to—and from—Bodies: The Civil War Poetry of Whitman & Dickinson

The author studies the seemingly dichotomous take on war in Walt Whitman's and Emily Dickinson's poetry; and argues for the congruency it attains underlining sufferings and deaths. Further, she notes the heavy usage of punctuations in Dickinson's war poetry and theorizes what it represents.
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July, 2022

From Threnody to Laughter: A Review of Shikhandin’s After Grief

Sucharita Dutta-Asane reviews Shikhandi's poetry collection, After Grief.
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July, 2022

Bird House

The author goes through the pandemic along with a change of residence and lifestyle. A bird lover since childhood, she learns a lot more as she lives along side Woodpeckers and Hummingbirds.
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June, 2022

An afternoon at the Little Magazine Archive, Kolkata

TBR's Managing Editor, Maitreyee Chowdhury, takes a trip to the Kolkata Little Magazine Archive in Tamer Lane, in the college Street area. She returned with a treasure trove worth of stories and anecdotes.
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June, 2022

Timbuktu

The author and her husband travel to Bamako, and from there, to Timbuktu They learn what Timbuktu stands for in reality compared to its popular meaning.
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