Category: Sunday Talks
Sunday Poem By Amita Ray
Marginalised In the bleeding sap of life you hide your gaping wounds deep down in solitary recess your affront surges wells up a tsunami of trauma your fury mute, impotent. You-the marginalised were born...
Sunday Article By Janhabi Banerjee
I Am a Woman I am a woman, and I am not proud of it. You have read it right. I am ‘not proud’ of being a specific gender. I exist. I belong. That...
Poem In Other Language By অনুরাধা মুখার্জী ব্যানার্জী
নারী…তুমি সর্বংসহা এখনো সমাজে দ্রৌপদী গুমরে কাঁদে, এখনো পিতামহ ভীষ্ম রা চুপ থাকে, আজ কাল আর কৃষ্ণের দেখা পাওয়া যায়না, যদি বাঁশির সুরে সত্যি সব মিটিয়ে নেওয়া যেত, প্রেমের সুর ধারী মানুষ টা কোনোদিন...
Sunday Feature By Pratyasha Sett
This Women’s Day I took a pledge of fighting Postpartum Depression to protect my emotional health And here’s another women’s day! This year, it’s a bit special for me. As a new mother, I...
Sunday Feature By Jagari Mukherjee
The Spinster’s Yarn A couple of months ago, I had to fill a form that included checkboxes for selecting, among other things, one’s marital status. I was surprised to realize that instead of words...
Sunday Feature By Jhilam Adhikary
How to be a Feminist It is easy to be a feminist. But prejudice, speculations and shame exist. And all the negative ideologies surrounding it, make little feminists lose way in a mist. They...
Sunday Feature By Madhurima Dasgupta
Womanhood…. How do we define and operationalize?? Being a ‘woman’ always involves ‘doing gender’ where she is socially constructed to perform her ‘expressive’ gender roles by being docile, subserviant, emotional, by providing domestic servitude...
Sunday Feature By Sankalpita Mullick
The phone rings The phone rings once the phone rings twice, Phones calls like bandages I wait impatiently, twisting my scrunchie, slipping in and out of my shoes Waiting to tell you the daily...