Between worlds
I have always felt that I am living between worlds, carrying the "elsewhere" to "somewhere" I have arrived at. In this edition, a number of writers explore issues of multiple worlds and of becoming and belonging in the liminal, in-between space, migrants of the world often find themselves inhabiting.
Edited by: Bashabi Fraser
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Between worlds
Bashabi Fraser
"‘I have always felt that I am living between worlds, carrying the “elsewhere” to “somewhere” I have arrived at. In this edition, a number of writers explore issues of multiple worlds and of becoming and belonging in the liminal, in-between space, migrants of the world often find themselves inhabiting."
Poet Bashabi Fraser reveals she has 'always felt that I am living between two worlds, carrying the ‘elsewhere’ with me to the ‘somewhere’ I have arrived at'.
Opposites Attract
Debjani Chatterjee
“Humans, who take up a space between the gods and demons, have a dual nature, reconciling opposing forces. Writers and artists have a vital role in acting as a conduit; they are Vasuki, the rope that connects the gods and the demons.”
In Debjani Chatterjee’s discussion of how opposites attract, she values being able to ‘lightly tread’ in many worlds and with many tongues.
Betweenness: belonging and becoming
Nalini Paul
“As time moves forward, truths glare like beacons, blow like gales, much louder and stronger than the meagre titbits of false knowledge we were given as children.”
Poet Nalini Paul discovers that 'we can exist between memory and belonging, between past and present, between countries and cultures'.
The Outlier: Michael Madhusudan Dutt
Namita Gokhale
“I sometimes find myself possessed by a literary figure, or a literary moment, and cannot break the spell until I have paid some form of homage, some tribute, to acknowledge the deep and lasting impact that the encounter has had on me.”
Namita Gokhale on her admiration for the 19th century Bengali poet and dramatist Michael Madhusudan Dutt.
To pin the wings of the butterfly
Suhayl Saadi
“I sometimes wonder why the paranormal net curtain does not occasionally blow sideways, revealing a giant plesiosaur in my sitting-room.”
Suhayl Saadi notes the idea of a continuum effecting shifting change in multiple worlds as he challenges ‘nativist clerical fascism’.
The torn worlds basted through my poems
Yogesh Patel
“Only if Abhimanyu knew!
The name of the seventh war zone is
London”
Poet Yogesh Patel on of 'a questioned ‘belonging’ with the urge to integrate marred by the relentless hurdles to success.The name of the seventh war zone is
London”
Price of emigration
Tariq Latif
“Having graduated,
we play-act being British, fussing over mortgages,
joking about pensions and grudging the fact
that in our jobs discrimination is a given.”
An evocative poem on aspiration, identity and discrimination for those with Indian roots living in the UK.we play-act being British, fussing over mortgages,
joking about pensions and grudging the fact
that in our jobs discrimination is a given.”
A journey through houses of worship in Scotland
Bashabi Fraser and Hermann Rodrigues
A poetic journey through houses of worship in Scotland by Bashabi Fraser and Hermann Rodrigues.
A poetic journey through houses of worship in Scotland by Bashabi Fraser and Hermann Rodrigues.