Souradeep Roy

Souradeep Roy received his MPhil on the poet Adil Jussawalla, from the Department of English, University of Delhi. He works as part of the editorial collective of the Indian Writers’ Forum. His poems and translations have appeared in, or are due to to appear in Almost Island, The Missing Slate, Fulcrum, Indian Literature, Vayavya, Guftugu, Aainanagar, among others. He has been invited to read by Poetry Couture and the Sahitya Akademi. In another life he was an actor and director. The films he has worked in as an actor have been screened in several film festivals with official selections in Mumbai International Film Festival, Ca’ Foscari Short Film Festival, Italy; International Film Festival of India, Goa; Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival, France; National Student Film Awards, FTII, Pune. In Delhi, he has done close door performances of his performance project on the Hungryalist poets from Bengal and Bihar, called “Performing a Censored Poem”.

Poems of Manindra Gupta

The Second Era of the Timeless, Continuous Tradition of Bangla Poetry Comes to an End When I finished reading poems for our timeless, ever-continuing tradition of Bangla poetry and looked up I was staring at the last part of the month of Chaitra, the end of the year. Under the open, clear sky, the earth looked clearer, but because I have been reading poems year after year the outlines of alphabets, like iron rods in prison gates, are still walking  in front of my eyes. The moment I came out…

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