This book focuses on the aftermath of the 1947 Partition of India. It considers the long aftermath and afterlives of Partition afresh, from a wide and inclusive range of perspectives and studies the specificities of the history of violence and migration and their memories in the Bengal region.
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From Khushwant Singh to Amitav Ghosh - explores a significant cross-section of South Asian fiction in English written on the theme of Partition from the mid-1950s to the late 1980s, and shows how the Partition novel in English ...
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An assessment of twenty-first-century Indian-English fiction, Writing India Anew features fifteen essays by some of the most prominent scholars in the field and explores a range of themes, including the remapping of mythology and history ...
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It is a collection of ten short stories, of contemporary Indian women who have reached a critical juncture in their lives. Set primarily in post liberalized, post-millennial Kolkata, it mostly explores the lives of middle-class Bengali women ...
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I've been writing online consistently since 2016. The 40 plus pieces till now embrace a wide range of topics in the Arts including reviews (of books and films), features, interviews, and travel and personal essays.
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“I keep writing shorter stuff to allay the hunger of my writer soul… but snacks can never stand in for full meals!” I wrote to a friend in a long conversation on the writing life in 2019. Only I didn’t seem to have one: my maiden collection of shorts had been accepted for publication for more than a year then, but I still didn’t know when it would come out; and a work-in-progress epistolary novel on which I had worked for two years had been shelved for the next two...
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From Mid 2019 to Late 2021, barring some exceptions, I wrote a monthly blog for ‘Authors Electric’, a writers collective.
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After almost nine years of living in the Netherlands, I decided to write a blog of my life there. Just over a year later, however, we returned to India, making this a short-lived blog. The experience of living and working in the Netherlands, especially Amsterdam, would sometimes seep into what I would write in Kolkata.
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I love watching films, love it next only to reading books. When Indian Cinema completed 100 years in 2013, I thought of celebrating it by sharing my love for and insights about the versions of it I know (Hindi and Bengali Cinema) with others through a blog. It was my first blog; I have continued blogging in several other avatars since.
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Between 2010 and 2014, I wrote an occasional column on Indian for THE NEWSLETTER, the quarterly publication of the International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS), Leiden. I also wrote a number of other pieces for them before that, including a mandatory feature article on my independent research at IIAS in 2009.
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Everything in my life can be traced to my mother – including my fiction! The long ‘back story’ of my fiction writing has a lot to do with her – with her instilling in me a fascination for stories as a child; sharing with me her love of literature, music and all things beautiful; and bringing me up in a home whose most prized possession were its books. But more than anything else, it has to do with her relentless faith in me as a writer and her urging me never to give up my creative impulse. In this, she had led by example – by publishing a book of fiction, Mukh-Michhil (in Bangla), in 2014, at the age of 70!
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The Kolkata Partition Museum (KPM) Project aims to establish a Partition museum in Kolkata, focussed on the experience of Bengal. Its twin foci are historical specificity and cultural continuity: it is dedicated to memorialize, in the most comprehensive manner possible, the specificity of Bengal’s Partition history, its aftermath and afterlives; it is equally keen to emphasize the cultural continuities between West Bengal and Bangladesh, in terms of their common living heritage - language, literature, food, fabric, and the performing arts - and to encourage collaboration between them. And it aims to do so by involving public participation in its programs and gearing all its activities in a way that make it more accessible and interesting to the public at large.
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Over the last few years, I have delivered numerous invited lectures/talks on Partition literature and KPM, and also moderated/or was a part of panel discussions related to these topics at diverse institutions and platforms. Most of them were recorded. Sharing them here, hoping it will benefit those interested. The ones pending permission will be shared later.
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