Biryani Tales and Life Lessons from Kerala, Review essay, The Wire (September 2018)
Back on the Bus: The world of a daily passenger, Personal essay, Sunday Eye, Indian Express (August 2018)
What Mantoโs โDas Rupayโ Tells Us About Sexual Violence Against Girls Today , Review essay, The Wire (July 2018)
A People Ravaged: Peeling off the Many Layers of Partition Trauma, Book review, The Wire (May 2018)
Love and the Turning Seasons โ Indiaโs Poetry of Spiritual & Erotic Longing , Book review, Kitaab, (April 2018)
The Whore as Metaphor for a City, Review essay, The Beacon (February 2018)
Wet Radio and other poems, Book review, Kitaab (December 2017)
Rooting in Snow, Personal essay, Cargo Literary Magazine, (November 2017)
House of Song, Book review, Cafe Dissensus (October 2017)
The Restless Brilliance of Hassan Blasim, Author profile/Book review, Kitaab (October 2017)
On Durgaโs Migrant Trails, Personal essay, Cafe Dissensus Everyday (September 2017)
Satirical Films Have a Lot to Say About Indiaโs โBabaโ Culture, Essay, The Wire (September 2017)
The Historian’s Daughter , Book review in Cafe Dissensus (August 2017)
Cutting Through Mountains to Build a Statue Translation in The Wire (August 2017)
Who is Abani, at whose house, and why is he even there? Translation in Parabaas (August 2017)
Bangladesh Now, Through the Lens of Mostofa Sarwar Farooki, film review in The Wire (June 2017)
Book Review: Sumana Royโs โHow I Became a Treeโ, book review in Cafe Dissensus Everyday (April 2017)
Singing in Dark Timesโa Manual for Encoding Dissent, poem in The Maynard (April 2017)
Beheji, poem, in Stonecoast Review (December 2016)
London Relived: The precise affections of a sometimes lover, personal essay in Coldnoon Travel Poetics (August 2016)
Asavari, poem in Open Road Review (August 2016)
Balancing Yin and Yang in Coyoacan, personal essay in Cafe Dissensus Everyday (April 2016)
Nirmala Boudi and the Bureaucracy, fiction translation in Humanities Underground (November 2015)
Parama Park Street, prose translation in The Sunflower Collective (September 2015)
Fall, poem in Words, Pauses, Noise (September 2015)
Thirsty, poem in Open Road Review (June 2016)
Togetherness Formulae, poem in AntiSerious (June 2015)
Review of Rivers Run Back in Cafe Dissensus (May 2015)
Living Abroad is Making Do and Make Believe, poem in Words, Pauses, Noises (March 2015)
An anti-national friendship, translated into Bengali in Friendships Across Borders (February 2015)
When I had the Plague, humour essay in Anti Serious (December 2014)
Patch of sky for hopes to fly, review essay in DNA (September 2014)
Between the Map and the Memory/book review in Cafe Dissensus (August 2014)
Marrying the Road, essay/book review in DNA (July 2014)
Winter Outside a Grocery Store, poem in Two Cities Review (P 33) (June 2014)
Ocean of Consciousness, essay in DNA (May 2014)
Letters from a Foreign Shore, translated letters in Cafe Dissensus (May 2014)
Aranyalipi, translated essay in Muse India (May 2014)
Kabir in the time of elections, essay in DNA (April 2014)
The Curse of the Missing, column in Cafe Dissensus Everyday (April 2014)
The fabled crop of winter, essay in DNA (March 2014)
Summer at Victoria Park, poem in The Boston Coffee house (March 2014)
Two Weeks in Delhi, personal essay in Pithead Chapel (March 2014)
Flickering Embers in Verse, essay in DNA (February 2014)
Book review: Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage in DNA (January 2014)
Book review: Corona in TFQM (December 2013)
The Bulldozer in Warscapes (November 2013)
His Masterly Voice: Manna Dey, in Sahapedia (October 2013)
Alice Munro: Marathons in Sprint in IBN Live (October 2013)
‘Where a line is a circle: Toronto’ in Earthen Lamp Journal (September 2013)
Shakti’s Singing in Parabaas (April 2013)
On Durga’s Migrant Trails Personal essay in The Four Quarters Magazine (December 2012)
The Crater Doesn’t Move in Open Road Review (November 2012)
Ramkinkar’s People Live Again in Indian Express (September 2012)
A restless but calming mind (May 2012)
When art meets publishing world (April 2012)
Mention in BCLT Alumni News (March 2012)
Still in Translation (March 2012)
Wow! Congratulations!!! You deserve it. Good luck in the next round!
I love this story! Your grandmother reminded me of someone in my own family.I wish you all the best in this contest! How exciting!
Congratulations!!!!!
That is so huge. I will check out your piece, but I want to say congrats.
It’s not wonder you were chosen in the final group. This piece really shines with old memories vividly recalled. Good luck, but I have a good feeling about this.
Truly a lovely story, Bhaswati.
Congratulations and good luck! I’m off to read your story…
Awesome story. Very rich in its descriptions, and touching.
Great story! Congratulations and good luck! ๐
Wonderful news!Very proud of you! ๐
Thank you everyone. What can I say but that the greatest reward of writing is to have the support of terrific friends like you all? Thanks to those who read my entry and liked it. Now comes the real tough part. Adding another 2,000 words to the story that will reflect the memoir’s narrative arc. (Bites fingernails). I am sorry I haven’t been around your blogs lately (something I love to do). This contest and a few other writing projects are the culprits. I promise to make up for my absence very soon though. Can’t stay off my favourite people’s journals for too long ๐
Great story, dipping with atmosphere–love it.I have a whole sack of good luck vibes saved up for just such an occasion.* oni reaches into the burlap sack and tosses two large handfuls into the air.-oni
Waa, waa, waa, Shabhash Bhaswati.Khoobsurat. I could close my eyes and imagine I was there under the big mango tree as the dark storm clouds rolled in. I wish you all the best in the remainder of the contest. You deserve to win. Can’t wait to read the additon to it.dil se,Simran
Congratulations! Very well-deserved! Best wishes to you!
Oni, you sure got just the thing I needed. Appreciate those good vibes! Thanks for the kind words :)Simran, I am so glad you read my entry and liked it. Thanks for the good wishes :)Marti, thank you so much!
Congrats!! That’s awesome.
Thanks, Matt!
Congrats! That’s wonderfulโโI can’t wait to read it.
Heh. I really have to start proof reading my comments. On my first post, I meant “dripping,” not “dipping.”But you probably figured that out.Cheers.
Jamie, thanks. I hope you like it. Oni, fret not, friend. I’ve been culpable of the same offence on more occasions than I’d care to admit ๐
Great! Congrats :-)I want to read your story, but that damn link doesn’t open :-((
Hey, thanks, Yoda! I can email the story to you if that’s okay?
Please, go right ahead. I love receiving email :-)Wonder why that page isn’t working though … is it one of your new blogs to get by the Indian blockage of blogger?
Hmm, you are right, Yoda. The link wasn’t working for me either, though it initially did (weird, huh?). I put it back again, so now it should. Will send you the email anyway. ๐
That is so exciting!!! Congratulations!
Aww, thanks Kelly! For the kind words and for dropping by.
Congratulations Bhaswati,It was nice to see you on my blog yesterday.I did not hear from you for the longest time. I thought you had written me off and wasn’t any longer, interested in my writing.
“I thought you had written me off and wasn’t any longer, interested in my writing.”Or was it the other way round, Susan? LOL, jut joking. I clicked on your old blog a lot of times, and in the recent past, my comp would hang every time I did that. Then recently, I chanced upon your new blog and was so glad. I never write off friends. For a while, I didn’t visit any of my blog friends only because I was buried neck deep in some writing projects. Thanks for the kind words and a warm welcome back, Susan ๐