On a cloudy morning, a teenager wearing a Che Guevara t-shirt walks past a wall mural of Mother Mary that reads Mother Mary Amader Ma (Mother Mary is our mother) inscribed in Bengali. Currency notes ...
Jhumpa Lahiri returned to India after 12 years, speaking in Kolkata about her early shame regarding the Bengali language and her complex relationship with the city. She also discussed her decision to ...
The early resistance in East Pakistan centred on the fight to preserve Bangla language identity, gradually evolving into a ...
This is an edited version of the conversation that took place on stage with the poet, Kiriti Sengupta, on 16 March 2023, at Mulk Raj Anand Auditorium, Department of English and Cultural Studies, ...
For Jhumpa Lahiri, whose life and writing have been shaped by migration between continents and languages, the immigrant ...