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The World Is an Absurd Offering: A Review of Suchita Parikh-Mundul’s Absurd Theatre
Kabir Deb reviews Suchita Parikh-Mundul’s Absurd Theatre.
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The Hour of God by Vinita Agrawal
Shabnam Mirchandani reviews Vinita Agrawal’s The Hour of God.
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In Opposition of Poetic Tradition: A Poet’s Guide to Transcending Eurocentricity
Bianca Alyssa Pérez shows us in this essay how poets Laurie Ann Guerrero, Audre Lorde, and Gris Muñoz use free verse, personal experience, and linguistic subversion to challenge and transcend Eurocentric poetic traditions.
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150 Years of Rainer Maria Rilke
The year 2025 marks the 150th year of the birth of Rainer Rilke, and as we enter the centenary of his passing in December, Shantanu Ray Chaudhuri looks at some of Rainer Rilke’s greatest poems and how they impacted him.
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Sing, Slivered Tongue – Excerpt
Extract from Sing, Slivered Tongue Edited by Dr. Lopamudra Basu and Dr. Feroz Jussawalla.
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Bandaged Moments: Stories of Mental Health by Women Writers from Indian Languages – Excerpt
Extract from Bandaged Moments: Stories of Mental Health by Women Writers from Indian Languages, Edited by Nabanita Sengupta & Nishi Pulugurtha
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“We’d Stumbled Out the Door”: Reclaiming Female Subjectivity in Diane Seuss’s frank: sonnets
The author examines how Diane Seuss reinvents the traditional sonnet form to challenge patriarchal constructs.
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The Poetry of Prose Writers
Sudeep Ghosh offers snippets of some prose writers whose works do not cease to fascinate him for their levels of poetic sweep and grandeur
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The Moving Finger: A book by writers, for writers on the art of writing, edited by Hilda David and Francis Jarman – Excerpt from Jerry Pinto’s Essay “On Translation”.
TBR present an excerpt from Jerry Pinto’s essay titled On Translation from The Moving Finger.
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In search of a father figure!
Both Srilata and Sylvia seek to mirror the tangibility of their respective vision of an absent father figure. They attempt to strike roots in the barren landscape of fatherly love
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TBR Showcases Eight Books from Independent Publishing Houses
At TBR, we wanted to recognise the efforts that go into independent publishing and showcase a few interesting books (published in 2024) that caught our eye.
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Fiercely Tender: The Simple Complex World of Michael Ondaatje’s Novels
Shortly afterwards in that novel we encounter a celebration of the body, grime and all, unimpeded by this abstraction called mind. While writing the body might seem not altogether unusual, my point is that you cannot simply assume its naturalness. Language, even fictional language, is so much of a mentally…
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Book Excerpt from Deccan Queen: Take Two
“Of course he’s not a fool, darling. He’s very clever. He works in a bank. He just likes Khurshed and wanted to show us that he knows about and eats foreign delicacies, and I suppose wanted us to think that it was quite expensive. He was trying to impress us,…
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Self and Selflessness
The writer juxtaposes the nuggets of wisdom of writers and philosophers and poets to arrives at an aspect of understanding.
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The Boatswain: Authority and Power Politics in Shakespeare’s The Tempest
William Shakespeare’s The Tempest contains a minor character, the Boatswain, who is rarely examined, yet is pivotal to understanding not only the dynamics of the..
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A look at Asia’s Biggest Book Fair
The author takes the readers on a journey to the 47th International Kolkata Book Fair.
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Book Excerpt from A Long Season of Ashes
TBR presents an extract of Siddhartha Gigoo’s A Long Season of Ashes by.
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An Excerpt from 10 Indian Languages and How They Came to Be
The author presents us with an excerpt from his book 10 Indian Languages and How They Came to Be.
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As a tribute to the doyen of Indian English Poetry, TBR carries images that were clicked of the poet, as a part of a documentary (The False Start) on his life conceived and directed by Bishweshwar Das.
TBR carries images that were clicked of the poet, as a part of a documentary (The False Start) on his life conceived and directed by Bishweshwar Das.
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Shadow and Silence, a photo essay by Basudhara Roy
Shadow and Silence, a photo essay by Basudhara Roy
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Roots and Resonance, a conversation between two poets, Monica Mody and Sophia Naz
We find two important women poets, Sophia Naz and Monica Mody initiate a conversation with the idea of placing poetry as a counter to amnesia and loss.
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Book Excerpt from Strong Woman
TBR presents an extract of Strong Woman Reba Rakhshit. Reba was a stuntmaster who worked shoulder to shoulder with men to give her country its first ‘strong woman’. She was the first Indian woman to lift an elephant on her chest.
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An Eclectic Book Recommendation list by Gaurav Monga
Gaurav Monga, recommends an eclectic list of books that are sure to make you sit up
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Autumn Blossoms
Shantanu Ray Chaudhuri speaks to Gajra Kottary, the author of Autumn Blossoms.