InSight

Partition: Scottish independence and the Bengali experience

WritersMosaic launches in Glasgow with an exploration of the Bengali experience of Partition as it impacted writers now living in Scotland. Crime writer Abir Mukherjee, literary critic Sourit Bhattacharya and poet and Tagore scholar Bashabi Fraser relate their family stories to contemporary debates on Scottish independence.
3rd September 2023

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Films from WritersMosaic

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Free Will

Will Harris reads his poem, 'Free Will'. Directed by Matthew Thompson and commissioned by the Adrian Brinkerhoff Poetry Foundation.

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Half Written Love Letter

Selina Nwulu reads her poem, 'Half Written Love Letter'. Directed by Matthew Thompson and commissioned by the Adrian Brinkerhoff Poetry Foundation.

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Misan Harriman: 'I agree with Robert Frank who said about photography, “the eye should learn to listen before it looks.”'

In conversation with Gabriel Gbadamosi

Zakia Sewell: 'I was in Wales over the weekend, and you see the Welsh flag everywhere. And it elicits a very different response in me to the St George's Cross, which is ostensibly my flag.'

In conversation with Colin Grant

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When journalism is silenced

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What really matters, even in literally the shittiest times

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Three friends look to escape themselves for a wild night of youthful mayhem with life-changing consequences

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What we leave we carry, The series that tells the true-life stories of migration to the UK.

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Bibliotherapy for the head and the heart

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Seven poets celebrated by the T. S. Eliot Prize explore the concepts behind their books.

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