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Creative Non-Fiction
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.
Book Reviews
Sucharita Dutta-Asane reviews Tarannum Riyaz’s novel, Birds of Snows.
Creative Non-Fiction
The author undertakes an uncomfortable journey of acceptance and tells a tale of a tumultuous relationship she shares with her mother.
Cinema
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.
Creative Non-Fiction
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.
Memoirs
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..
Literature
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.
Book Reviews
Sucharita Dutta-Asane reviews Shikhandi’s poetry collection, After Grief.
Creative Non-Fiction
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.
Creative Non-Fiction
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.
Culture
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.
Culture
A group of thirty college students, studying comparative human rights across the globe, learn that human sufferings and identity are not as different as it would seem.
Cinema
The author discusses the documentary, Final Account; the aftermath of January 6 Capitol Riots and Milgram’s Shock Experiment videos.
Creative Non-Fiction
Remember the gulf between who you are on the outside and who you are in the privacy of your skull? Yes, yes, you try to assimilate as best you can but you’re never quite…enough. While you know this is the case for most people, somehow, it causes you more problems than you will admit, perhaps because you’ve been raised to believe they’re character deficits and you can’t accept they define you.
Creative Non-Fiction
Their catnaps were high-speed energy recharges. On cool days, they slept in either of two baskets alone or together. Most days, they found sunny or shady corners around the house. We once discovered them entwined to resemble a heart. They had a favorite conjoined twin pose where they slept with their heads against each other.
Book Reviews
Susmita Paul reviews Sayan Aich Bhowmik’s debut poetry collection, I will come with a Lighthouse.
Creative Non-Fiction
My childhood home may have been more than an ocean crossing away from the Adriatic. Nevertheless, in the house I grew up in just west of Lake Michigan, summers proved intensely humid; hence, my association of the season with the dizzyingly sweet fragrance of lilacs.
Creative Non-Fiction
Another memory spreads across the field. My parents load me and my siblings into the brown GM van; we sleep on the 14-hour drive to our grandparents’ mountain town filled with lights and purple shadows and cowboys and scents of anise and Chex mix. The year I was born, my grandparents moved west for Grandpa’s job with the railroad.
Book Reviews
Sucharita Dutta-Asane reviews Kunwar Narain’s selected poetry collection, Witnesses of Remembrances.
Creative Non-Fiction
My best friend, Lee, and I have shared nearly 50 years of friendship. We have supported each other through childbirth, are godmothers to each other’s..
Book Reviews
Neera Kashyap reviews Light of the Sabbath by Kavita Ezekiel Mendonca.
Creative Non-Fiction
Before the 2021 fall election, I agreed to write messages on 100 postcards to a list of strangers in Virginia to encourage them to vote…
Literature
“… teachers are very serious because they do all their work with their minds and so sometimes they have to be reminded that they must use their bodies.” – Yaa Gyasi, Homegoing
Creative Non-Fiction
This piece by Ahsan Chowdhury resulted from his pilgrimage to Khwaja Baba’s shrine a few years ago.