For An Informed Ambedkar Age
Chanchal Kumar & Abhijit Khandkar Manifesto Ouroboros wants beauty. We want a place which smells like earth after the first damp rain ~ petrichor ~ We stand for liberty, equality, fraternity. We believe, echoing our Babasaheb Ambedkar, that cultivation of the mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence. If we can do it …
Samkutty Pattomkary Translated from Malayalam by Sreekala Sivasankaran 1. Sea Horses in the Memories When the blue doors open Mother cries in the tender coconut shell Like a pecked out navel Novel rhythm oozes The dalit pastor screams To the bud-rotten cross Let the leaves sprout Would become the …
Chanchal Kumar What makes great literature? Or, to be more precise, great poetry? Mark Yakich, the American poet believes, “Reading a good poem doesnt give you something to talk about. It silences you. Reading a great poem pushes further. It prepares you for the silence that perplexes us all: death.” I share this idea. …
Yogesh Maitreya and Shiva Thorat While living in an academic ‘space’; one gets updated from time to time on acceptances and rejections of academic works. While one sees the accepted works celebrated by its producers but none in academic space give any response to rejected producers. How one receives a rejection in academia has …
Eminent Marathi poet Namdeo Dhasal passed away today (January 15th, 2014). This is the collective tribute of a group of Round Table India writers. ~ Here-in the distanceRevolution rumbles everywhereYou hear it? His poetry did not belong to the pages, for neat archiving in some anthology. It had trees, but they were leafless. It …