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 Manto’s ‘Das Rupay’ 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 – India’s 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 Durga’s Migrant Trails, Personal essay, Cafe Dissensus Everyday (September 2017)
Satirical Films Have a Lot to Say About India’s ‘Baba’ 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 Roy’s ‘How I Became a Tree’, book review in Cafe Dissensus Everyday (April 2017)
Singing in Dark Times—a 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)
Wonderful post and great new look for the blog! So nice to have you back. Looks like you had a marvelous time at Monterrey, I'd love to visit that aquarium 🙂
Of Mice and Men is one of my favorite novels.Looks like you had a great visit to Monterrey.
Ahh, I miss the ocean…Monterrey looks like a lovely place Bhaswati…thank you so much for sharing photos. Your blog is sporting a new look…love it!
It's been so long since we've been to Monterey — and we're only a couple hours away! Thanks for the contest!allmycrazycats @ aol.com
My favourite picture has to be the moon jelly one, etched against the cobalt blue background. And yes, it is about the writing, Bhas… :-)) (tagline reference 😉 xx
You know, it's sad but I've never seen the ocean in person. And, I've only read The Pearl by Steinbeck. Doubly sad! That sardine pasta dish looked delectable, though!
Glad to see you're back! 🙂 Beautiful pictures; the last one made me hungry.I love the new (is it new?) tag line for the blog, especially "It's not just about writing, you know." It rings true.Also, I just happened to buy a Steinbeck novel (*The Pearl*) at a used book sale. Haven't read *Cannery Row* either. But I will. 😀
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Dear Bhaswati,No near yet so far. Not for the greed of the giveaway – which i understand is a lucky dip of sorts – the blog left me wistful about how people can be so lucky and get the best of both worlds.Good luck and god bless!
Welcome back to the blogging world funny girl. Sure have missed you!
Welcome back, Bhaswati! I hope you've been well. 🙂
awwwwww I heart seahorses! They are so neat!And thanks for hosting the giveaway!Sweetimpishpixie(AT)gmail(DOT)com
Dear Bhaswati,I wondered whether you had written something on Tagore given that this is his 150th birth anniversary year and there is considerable excitement in Bengal regarding this and so decided to check out your blog. I was pleasantly surprised to find that your blog has a new look and also that you visited Cannery Row. Steinbeck is one of my favourite writers and the short novel Cannery Row especially is a treat. I secretly admire both Doc and Mac and the gang and have tried to emulate their characters in my own life in many ways! How lucky you are to be able to visit such a historic place that holds sweet memories for me even though I doubt whether I will ever be able to visit it! But coming down to brass tacks I would really like you to write something on the relevance of Tagore in today's topsy turvy world. Though your translation of his story is excellent as a tribute to this other literary genius who has greatly influenced my life.
Cesar, glad to be back! The aquarium was truly amazing. Terry, that's such a brilliant piece of writing, isn't it?Lotus, thanks for dropping by! We sure had a nice time by the ocean. 🙂Kristine, it was fun doing the contest. Thanks for playing!Susan, the moon jelly is simply ravishing, isn't it?Stephen, any time you are in CA, we will be happy to accompany you to the ocean. Promise. And the pasta was yummy! Oni, thanks for the visit to this blog, friend! The tagline has been there since day one. Will look forward to your views on the Steinbeck book you got. Glogirl, the pleasure was mine. Thanks for playing!Pinknblu, many thanks. Andrea, thanks for the welcome back. I missed you all tons too. 🙂Jason, thanks, friend. Been well, just a little busy. 😛 Pixie, aren't those seahorses gorgeous! Thanks for playing too. 🙂Rahul, thanks for your kind words. What do I write about the relevance of Tagore–I wouldn't know where to start and where to end. For me, he is a constant–whether the sphere is personal or public. On your recommendation now, I must read "Cannery Row"!
Congrats to Stephen Hines for his win!
you are in monterey and you are yet to read cannery row, and all we *#@%* who have read it may never go there, such are the exquisite ironies of life …
I love the ocean in Monterey! Great pictures. We own a Wall Mirrors ecommerce site and are always looking for great content to share and help inspire. Thanks.
The article is grate and the ocean is wonderful I love it and the Moon Jelly and the sea horse its seems so unique.