Interviews
In Conversation with Aruna Chakravarti
Sahitya Akademi Award winning translator and writer, Dr Aruna Chakravarti reflects on her journey as a writer. Click here to read.
‘He made History stand still on his Pages’
An interview about an eminent screenwriter and author who has had yet another anthology of translated stories, Mistress of Melodies, just been published, Nabendu Ghosh. His daughter, senior journalist Ratnottama Sengupta unfolds stories about her father. Click here to read.
Stories
The Literary Fictionist
Monalisa No Longer Smiles Here by Sunil Sharma is a poignant story of child labour in India. Click here to read.
Balochi Folktale involving magic retold by Fazal Baloch. Click here to read.
Ghumi Stories: The Tower of Babble
Nabanita Sengupta delves into relocation and its impacts. Click here to read.
Gauri Mishra explores the unusual desires of a young girl. Click here to read.
Flash Fiction: Happily Ever After
Sohana Manzoor explores the myth of happily ever after with three short & gripping narratives set in modern urban Bangladesh. Click here to read.
Musings
Musings of a Copywriter
In Pray to Win, Devraj Singh Kalsi gives an entertaining account of Tumpji pujas across India during the US elections. Click here to read
Anasuya Bhar takes us through 2020 — what kind of a year has it been? Click here to read.
Kavita Ezekiel Mendonca tells us about the ancient Jewish festival of Hanukkah with its origins in the early BCEs and the Seleucid Empire. Click here to read.
There’s an Eternal Summer in a Grateful Heart
Sangeetha Amarnath Kamath brings a Singaporean School to our doorstep with a sentimental recount of her experience at relief teaching. Click here to read.
Essays
US Polls: What should We Celebrate?
Candice Louisa Daquin, a senior editor by profession, reflects on the US Poll results. Click here to read.
Hold the roast turkey please Santa !
Celebrating the festive season off-season with Keith Lyons from New Zealand, where summer solstice and Christmas fall around the same time. Click here to read.
The Lost Art of Doing Nothing or the Pursuit of Wasting Time
Anwesha Paul explores the pace of our lives and the concept of FOMO in context of today’s race towards ‘doing’. Click here to read.
Cinema Viewing: Zooming In & Zooming Out
Gita Viswanath and Nikhila H explore the how the world of moviegoers has changed with time and with COVID19. Click here to read
Cyber Nationalism: Can that be a reality?
Pratyusha Pramanik explores the impact of social media. Click here to read.
Bhaskar Parichha explores how news is chosen selectively to sway public opinion. Click here to read.
Remembering Rokeya: Patriarchy, Politics, and Praxis
In this tribute, Azfar Hussain takes us on a journey into the world of Madam Rokeya who wrote more than a century ago in English, Urdu and Bengali. Her books talk of women, climate and issues related to patriarchy. Click here to read.
Poetry
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Michael R Burch, Anita Nahal, Sekhar Banerjee, Megha Sood, Jessie Michael, Y. Deepika, Ashok Suri, Anjali V Raj, Netra Hirani, Md Musharraf, Soma Debray, Jenny Middleton, Ihlwha Choi, Sangeeta Sharma, Sonya J Nair, Tom Merrill, Shakti Pada Mukhopadhyay
Humour
Vatsala Radhakeesoon, Sekhar Banerjee, Rhys Hughes
Translations
A part of Bichitro Probondho (Strange Essays) by Rabindranath Tagore, translated by Chaitali Sengupta from Netherlands. Click here to read
Lesya Bakun translates three of her own poems from Ukranian and Russian to English. Click here to read.
A Nepali poem for a nuclear war victim by Manjul Miteri, who is currently helping sculpt a Buddha in Japan, has been translated to English by Hem Bishwakarma. Click here to read
Poetry from Nepal by Nabin Pyassi, translated by Haris C Adhikari. Click here to read.
Poems from Armenia by Eduard Harents translated from Armenian by Harout Vartanian. Click here to read
Book Excerpt
No strings Attached: Writings on Odisha by Bhaskar Parichha. Click here to read.
Reviews
The Brass Notebook: A Memoir is a recently penned autobiography by eminent economist Devaki Jain, written based on a suggestion made by Doris Lessings in 1958, with a forward by Amartya Sen and reviewed by Bhaskar Parichha. Click here to read.
Nitoo Das’s Crowbite has been reviewed by Basudhara Roy. Click here to read.
On the first anniversary of a movement that seems to be a reaffirmation of democratic processes in a nation torn with angst, Meenakshi Malhotra reviews Shaheen Bagh and the Idea of India. Click here to read.
Rakhi Dalal reviews Mistress of Melodies by Nabendu Ghosh, translated stories edited by Ratnottama Sengupta, which not only bring to life history as cited in his Bangiya Sahitya Parishad Lifetime Achievement award but also highlights his ‘love for humanity’. Click here to read.
Sara’s Selections
A vivacious oeuvre presented by writers from Bookosmia. Click here to read.
Editorial
Mitali Chakravarty gives up a rounding up of 2020 on Borderless and a quick view of some of the content. Click here to read.
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One reply on “Borderless, December 2020”
I continue to be amazed by the sheer breadth of the journal. Such a refreshing read. Well done Borderless, way to go!
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