This is our first E-book - The Wordsmith Sutras. There sutras are 200 to 300 words essay on some essential themes of our lives. Inspired by Francis Bacons classic Essays, an attempt is made to capture Contemporary issues with utmost brevity with an intent to provoke and stimulate critical thinking. Reader's review welcome and some will be published in our book review section in forthcoming releases.
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This hilarious yet sparkingly real Bengal essay on the theme of Drinking by Amar Mukherjee was received from our dear old friend and contributor Sankhadip.

Poetry in Bengali from a young man and in translation the title is sinister: “The Princess of Darkness.”. Bengal has a deep occult tradition and unconsciously we are influenced by it. There are some words which confirm this connection although it was not clear whether the poet while describing the ‘first date’ was conscious about it.

Contributor Paramhangsha takes us on a tour of one of the oldest city of the world – Baranasi, Kashi or Venares. A photo essay and a mental surround of our connection with this city of the dead or the city of the eternal living or the city of the last resort…..

This Two part Essay takes up the subject of relevance of Tagore in Contemporary Bengal. Part 1 sets forth as how since 1960s, Bengali thinkers started to ponder the relevance of him and the essay continues in outlining the same till date in the backdrop of other issues, other concerns. Edited excerpt from CALCUTTA, CULTURE CLAIRVOYANCE: TAGORE AND GLOBALIZATION OF BENGAL – Book XIII of the An Intimate History of Bengal (PROJECT AIHB).

One of the ‘defining’ institutions of Modern Calcutta. A student of Comparative Literature of this ‘five star’ university captures her personal ‘perception’ about the institution. Note the ‘glitz and glamour’ and ‘five star’ – it is an indication as how words are such a tool to diagnose which way the wind is blowing.
Comparative Literature@JU – evokes the memory and memoir of the last of the Bengali poet of worth – Buddhadeb Basu who could only understand and communicate the greatest of poetical wisdom, much earlier than Kundera : A poet has no contract with any ideology except the contract with that of his Art.

This is continuation of our effort to introduce and explain the ‘freelancing work/job’ for our readers. We featured earlier a generic work on freelancing. Here is a practicing Freelance content writer shares the entire life-cycle of the art of content writing. She is one of the emerging and a leader in this area from the city of Calcutta.

The first pre-monsoon showers have made Bengal greener – at least the city parks from its grey, soiled-hander kerchief like look. On the political side also, the green is colour that has become dominant.