Page 4 - Uttaran Das Gupta

Root poetry

Mohanty's book brings us to darkness and end, but gently

Poetry at Shaheen Bagh

At Shaheen Bagh - or similar protests across the country, such as at Park Circus in Kolkata - women have emerged as the face of the protests

Linguist's love

The act of love, writes Polish theatre director Jerzy Grotowski in Towards a Poor Theatre, involves making oneself vulnerable; so does the act of theatre - or in fact any art, including poetry

Frames per Second: Remember Derozio, enfant terrible of Bengali Renaissance

An almost forgotten Bengali film casts light on the current turmoil on campuses

Remember Safdar

n recent times, it has also become very fashionable to call people "anti-national" if they are critical of the Bharatiya Janata Party-led central government or its policies

Bridges to Kabul

The book is cyclical - the last chapter of the book is called "Returns", like the first one

Poetic protests

The nationwide protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act, 2019 has led to an outpouring of poetry

Frames per second: The Spectre of the camps

Research has shown most Germans were well aware of what was going on at the detention centres

Blood and water: The strange link between CAA and a 1958 Bollywood classic

The contentious CAA and protests against it find echoes in Yahudi

Misfits matter

In his debut collection, Mumbai-based journalist and poet Suhit Kelkar has channelled Greek myths to indulge in a sort of personal mythopoeia

A flaneur in Old Delhi

Shahjahanabad is divided into 18 parts, describing the construction of the fort, originally known as Qila-e-Mubarak, Chandni Chowk, Chawri Bazar, Jama Masjid, Khari Baoli

Frames per Second: Defending democracy

Woodward and Bernstein had described Watergate as an attack on American democracy. It seems too close home now

A long journey

Mr Thackeray is not your regular bigot, claiming that people turn into cannibals by eating eggs or that caressing cows can cure cancer

Manmade crisis in God's Own Country

Book review of Flood and Fury: Ecological Devastation In the Western Ghats

Love, heartbreak, clutter

Reading it is like peeking into the darkened drawing rooms of old Bengaluru houses on a mild summer afternoon

Did Sandip, anti-hero in Ghare Baire, have a moral route for his struggle?

While both Ray and Tagore, from whose eponymous novel the film was adapted, seem to favour Nikhilesh, Sandip's 'perfect counterfoil', one wonders if Sandip has any need to follow a moral route

Ghazal & friendship

The decision to include an entire section of Urdu poems translated into English is also, in fact, a political move

Rambling around Vienna, named the 'world's most liveable city' yet again

Uttaran Das Gupta recalls a few good reasons why

Dalits' Harlem moment

Mr Yengde proceeds to reveal the deep-rooted and intricate nature of casteism prevalent in society through a mixture of personal recollections and erudite academic work

Nostalgia unlimited

What one encounters in this slim volume is rare for a first book - a mature style, a confident voice, none of the fumbles of a younger poet's first book