Sayari Debnath
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Sunday book pick: The superb satire of Rajshekhar Basu aka Parashuram in ‘Selected Stories’ (opens the original)
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Rajshekhar Basu (1880-1960) was a man of many talents. He was a scientist and an industrial executive and wrote under the pen name “Parashuram.” Basu was among the most illustrious humorists of Bengali literature, and had even found a fan in Rabindranath Tagore, who said in admiration, “He creates image after image in such a way that I had known them forever.” A collection of his Selected Stories, translated by Sukanta Chaudhuri and Parash Baran Pal and published in 2006, displays his most cheri
A gallery of memories: How Kolkata’s citizens are preserving the city’s Chinese heritage (opens the original)
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A menu from the 1960s from Waldorf Restaurant, located on Russell Street. A bottle of Pou Chong’s sauce, established in a factory in Tangra. These are among the artefacts on display at the Cheenapara Heritage Gallery, which opened its doors in Kolkata’s Tiretta Bazar on September 5 to showcase the rich heritage of the city’s Chinese community. “We need a place to keep, preserve, document, and showcase all of it to not just the Chinese community but also Kolkata’s citizens at large,” said Sohini
Sunday book pick: In ‘The Others’, immigrants’ fates hang in the balance as the Berlin Wall teeters (opens the original)
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“And it’s always at this point, the point of change, that we must take greatest care.” The most important incident in Sheena Kalayil’s novel, The Others, takes place in the first few pages. Lolita and Armando find a young man’s body during their visit to the beach. It is believed that he drowned in an attempt to escape to Denmark from the Deutsche Demokratische Republik (DDR). Who this man is or what his real motive to leave the DDR might be, is not known. Lolita and Armando have only recently k
Sunday book pick: ‘How We Disappeared’ honours the ‘comfort women’ of Japan-occupied Singapore (opens the original)
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“I arrived home, or where it used to be, and all that was left was a wreckage. Just ash and charred wood where our lives used to be. There was a big patch in front of the houses where the earth had been turned over and patted down. I lowered myself into a squat, put my hand to the ground. There was nothing left. It was as if I had dreamed it all, what happened. I was the only one who could prove it but the only evidence I had was the absence of things…” Few nations in the world have tried to red
How Yikvot, a Kashmiri language preservation platform, hopes to help youth take to the language (opens the original)
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In 2023, Seerat Hafiz, who studied conflict studies and psychology in college and university, founded Yikvot, which means “together” in Kashmiri, to preserve the Kashmiri language and culture, and to connect and engage with her mother tongue at a time discourses around Kashmiri literature were hard to find for young people like herself. It began with hosting interactive reading sessions of important works of Kashmiri literature with academics and writers like Shafi Shouq and Neerja Mattoo. The m
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