Books

Light on other lives

In Heart Lamp, women also bear the brunt of the peculiar obsessions of men who want their desires fulfilled without giving much thought to the women, as it happens in ‘High-Heeled Shoe’, ‘The Arabic Teacher and Gobi Manchuri’

Journey to the centre of the 'bindu'

Poet Iryna Vikyrchak bids farewell to the city with translations of her Algometry

Internationally published Ukrainian poet Iryna Vikyrchak, who has been living in Calcutta for the last four years and is now set to bid adieu to the city and head off to France, had the most perfect farewell lying in wait for her on August 27, when the Bengali and English translations of her 2021 book of Ukrainian poetry, Algometry, were launched at The Red Bari on Sadananda Road