Bengali

Sangeeta Bandyopadhyay is a

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Sangeeta Bandyopadhyay is a stylistically daring writer in love with surrealism, credited with being ‘the woman who reintroduced hardcore sexuality to Bengali literature’. But though the (male) establishment used this label of erotica to dismiss her work, the sex scenes have exactly the same transgressive function as her use of chronology and narrative voice. Deborah … Read more

In traditional Hindu families

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In traditional Hindu families like ours, men provided and women were provided for. My father was a patriarch and I a pliant daughter. The neighborhood I’d grown up in was homogeneously Hindu, Bengali-speaking, and middle-class. I didn’t expect myself to ever disobey or disappoint my father by setting my own goals and taking charge of … Read more

Death is not extinguishing

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Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.
Rabindranath Tagore