Dear Uddipana,

The hyperlinks are working in all the groups except "Assam".

Buljit

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সমাজৰ কাৰণে ভাল কাম কৰাজনৰ পৰিচয় ৰাইজৰ আগত দাঙি ধৰিব লাগে আৰু ভাল খবৰবোৰ যিমান 
পাৰি ৰাইজৰ মাজত বিলাব লাগে।

                            ----  বুলজিৎ বুঢ়াগোহাঁই

--- On Sat, 17/11/12, Uddipana Goswami <[email protected]> wrote:

From: Uddipana Goswami <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [Assam] Announcing the launch of 'Northeast Review'
To: [email protected]
Date: Saturday, 17 November, 2012, 12:25 PM

hi buljit,
thanks for posting this. however, the links to the respective urls seem to be 
missing from the email you posted on the various lists. would it be possible to 
circulate the url of the website: http://northeastreview.com/?

thanks a ton,uddipana


On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 6:45 AM, Buljit Buragohain <[email protected]> 
wrote:







NORTHEAST REVIEW









(With apologies for cross posting. Please do let us know if you

don't want to be in this list)



 



Dear

All,







We

are very happy to present the first issue of Northeast Review.







In

this inaugural issue, we pay special homage to two great literary luminaries,

both iconic in their own ways: Indira (Mamoni Raisom) Goswami of Assam who

passed away one year ago and Sunil Gangopadhyay of West Bengal who left us not

even one month ago now. Amit Rahul Baishya revisits one of Indira Goswami’s

most well acclaimed short stories while Arunava Sinha assesses what it was that

made Sunil Gangopadhyay ‘entirely urban, entirely modern. And entirely Sunil.’







We

have also put together literary voices from all over the world. In poetry, we

have exclusive excerpts from Kynpham Sing Nongkynrih’s verse narrative ‘The

Midager’s Tale’. Sumana Roy and Deanna Larsen are the other poets we feature

here. Our fiction section features Sanjib Pol Deka and Janice Pariat, both

young and upcoming writers from the Northeast. An interview with novelist Biman

Nath and a review of Anuradha Roy’s book, The Folded Earth, make up the

rest of our content in this issue.











EXCLUSIVE : Selections

from A Midager’s Tale (A Verse Narrative) by Kynpham Sing Nongkynrih





We used to call the girl, ‘Khatduh’, which in

Khasi means the youngest child and therefore the preferred of everyone, the one

who could do no wrong, the one who could get away with anything. She was indeed

well liked, if not ardently desired, by all of us, an assorted company of

callow young teetotalers and veteran perpetrators of all the vices of these

hills, among which were chiefly gambling, wining and whoring. And yet, that in

spite of this surplus of suitors she had chosen that middle-aged potbelly was

something that no one could understand.







FEATURES : Slow

Violence: Time out of Joint in Indira Goswami’s ‘Jaatra’ by

Amit Baishya :





“In

Assamese literature, the works of authors like Rasna Barua, Indira Goswami,

Lummer Dai, Rong Bong Terang, Yeshe Dorjee Thongchi and Mousumi Kandali(among

others) can be studied through a vantage point that foregrounds the narrative

exploration of complex relationships between nature and the “human.” In this

essay, I will identify a provisional starting point for such explorations

through a reading of Indira Goswami’s well-known short story ‘Jaatra’ (The

Journey). ‘Jaatra’ is often classed as a story set against the backdrop of

militant violence in Assam.”







FICTION : The

Keeper of Souls by Janice Pariat





“This

evening, as with almost every other, I pause briefly at the gate. Light spills

from the upstairs study—Vera is working—and the path lamps flanking the

driveway cast a welcoming glow. Hanging from the rafters, our Indonesian wind

chime tinkles softly. The top is in the shape of an intricate dragon, and the

striker like a fiery flame; I’d picked it up on our trip to Jakarta after our

wedding. People here believe that wind chimes conjure spirits, but we prefer to

consider them a frail yet dutiful sentry against the outside world.”







FICTION : Fringe

Man by Sanjib Pol Deka





“And

then, how can he forget Mono dada’s family?  His wife, his daughter

Dangormai, do they love him any lesser? And dada’s younger son,

Sorubapu, he keeps teasing him ‘turtle-eating miyah’ all the time. Of

course, elder son Dangorbapu talks a little less. Even then, he always greets

Ahmed, whenever they meet.”







POETRY





Deepor

Beel by Sumana Roy





Zookeeper by

Deanna Larsen









OBITUARY : Nillohit

has left for Dikshunyapur  - Arunava

Sinha on Sunil Gangopadhyay





Gangopadhyay’s

first and eternal love was poetry. He always thought of himself as a poet and

as a custodian of verse.… Young men – among them famous poets of the 2000s –

guilelessly stole his poems and passed them off as their own to woo their

women.







INTERVIEW : Period

Pieces of Biman Nath: The Author in Conversation with Jyotirmoy

Talukdar



“Historical

fiction is not only about the past; it illuminates the present in a way that

history books don’t.”







REVIEW : On Anuradha Roy’s The Folded Earth by

Mary Susan Johnston





The Folded Earth,

although not nearly as ambitious, is nevertheless a book to savor.











 

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