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Author of Ghumi Days (Juggernaut), Translated Chambal Revisited ( Hawakal) , Editor of Understanding Womens Experiences of Displacement (Routledge)

Kolkata, India
Joined May 2015
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The book is available in print now! Three women bringing together their poetry as they negotiate with the world they live in. They reclaim the term "witch" as wisdom and power. Available from amzn.eu/d/iOICOZ8 and hawakal.com/books/english-bo… #poetrybooks #poetry @HawakalP
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When a dear friend sends a picture with your book... Thank you so much @nishipulu Open your door Library available in - redriverpress.in/product/ope… amzn.in/d/cqvEm4c
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Join us for a discussion on mental health, short stories, women's writing and translation
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Thank you for including Bandaged Moments in this week's read
Replying to @utterflea
This week's pick of great reads on @htTweets includes books by Leela Samson, Daisy Rockwell and @nabsdg & @nishipulu
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Disabilities Act, 1995, includes mental illness as a disability. In our forthcoming anthology Bandaged Moments (Niyogi Books), we bring together 26 short stories from 15 languages in English translation, on the issues of mental health @nishipulu #WorldDisabilityDay #TRANSLATION
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The hassles of surnames and Indian women ... A personal essay that I am delighted to share has found a home in The Wire. #Identity #women #Gender
What’s in a Name? Bureaucracy, Patriarchy and Identity. If you are a woman, keeping your full name in the form you wish can turn into a tedious affair. Nabanita Sengupta✍️ thewire.in/women/whats-in-a-…
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4 cancellations! 40 minutes in vain, trying to book a @yatri_sathi cab. It has become a trend where drivers say they will arrive and keep you waiting but then cancel after some time. High time you start valuing customers' time and be a bit honest too!
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As the city wades through a series of protests, it seems providential that FINALLY, my copies of Female Narratives of Protests: Literary and Cultural Narratives from South Asia, @routledgebooks has arrived. We hope this book opens up wider dialogic space in #Gender Studies
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Women in Translation month for me begins with the publication of my translation of Shyamal Bhattacharya 's story in the online magazine space.ink The story is set in Sri Lanka at a time when the Indian Peace Keeping force was deployed. thespace.ink/noahs-hill-by-s…
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A new translation project that @nabsdg and I are working on. Details of it are given in the link below. #translation #shortstory #indianlanguages #alcohol call-for-papers.sas.upenn.ed…… #translation
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Identities determine writing strategies. This beautiful book review points the poignancy and need for such strategies.
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My deliberations on language and mother tongue and in between spaces in After word, a space curated by @mohinigupta28 in @mttandmore   mothertonguetwisters.com/poe… #Languages
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Delighted to see the first review of Voices and Vision which I had co-edited with Nishi Pulugurtha. The review in Muse India is a comprehensive assessment of the anthology.
The first review of "Voices and Vision: The First IPPL Anthology" in Muse India. #poetry #poetrycommunity @nabsdg @amit_shankar @gopallahiri museindia.com/Home/ViewConte…
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New arrival — Angshuman Kar's "Wound is the Shelter." #Translation #Poetry #BengaliPoetry #WorldLiterature
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An interesting conversation with translator Anton Hur scroll.in/article/1050622/th…
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this morning I woke up with this beautiful news from the Indian Literature. This review by Nabanita Sengupta captures the heart of my poetry volume "Evening with a Sufi." Thanks a ton, Nabanita and Sukrita Paul Kumar for publishing this! @nabsdg @PaulSukrita
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Dr Krishnokoli Hazra, in her discussion of Krishnabhabini Das, mentions and refers to my translation of the travelogue A Bengali Lady in England. Elated that the book is reaching serious readers and scholars and also very happy with the chance discovery of this piece this morning
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Traditions have always been difficult for me to engage with, they also hold the greatest attraction too - a dilemma I have been living with since childhood. Thank to Chinki Sinha & Outlook for publishing my photo essay on Durga Puja at my home outlookindia.com/culture-soc…
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My monthly column in Saaranga magazine, Poetspeak, focuses on two anthologies of microform poems - Ustat Sethi's Crumbs of a Moment and @nishipulu 's Raindrops on Periwinkle. #poetspeak #haiku #micropoetry magazine.saarangabooks.com/p…
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