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Arko Dasgupta

Borrowing Vocabularies: Race and Caste

One summer afternoon in the month of April in 1972, Namdeo Dhasal, Raja Dhale, and Arun Kamble met in the city of Bombay in the Indian…

Nov 8, 2021

Borrowing Vocabularies: Race and Caste

Nov 8, 2021

How do you host an enemy?

The fall of Kabul to the Taliban has prompted many to rationalise the event in terms of clichés: “Afghanistan: the graveyard of empires”…

Aug 19, 2021

How do you host an enemy?

Aug 19, 2021

The Punjabi in Kenya: Recalling the life and times of Makhan Singh

The writer Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o once fondly wrote about the commitment of Africans and Indians in joining forces to combat empire and…

Jan 24, 2021

The Punjabi in Kenya: Recalling the life and times of Makhan Singh

Jan 24, 2021

What Disturbed Tagore

Rabindranath Tagore measured the soundness of a society by its capacity and propensity to admit contrasting peoples, ideas, and ways of…

Oct 21, 2020

What Disturbed Tagore

Oct 21, 2020

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi and the Radical Revolution

In The World Turned Upside Down: Radical Ideas During the English Revolution, Christopher Hill attempts to give us a “worm’s eye view” of…

Feb 14, 2020

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi and the Radical Revolution

Feb 14, 2020

The Everydayness of Rural Bengal

Translating fiction is an exercise commonly fraught with unsavoury prospects. Readers who can access a text in the original are disposed…

Jan 16, 2019

The Everydayness of Rural Bengal

Jan 16, 2019

Tagore’s Critique of the Modern Condition

In Rabindranath Tagore’s dance drama Tasher Desh (translated into English as The Land of Cards), the subjects of the House of Cards follow…

Oct 6, 2018

Tagore’s Critique of the Modern Condition

Oct 6, 2018

Without Tagore, Bengali Wouldn’t Be as Alive as It Is Today

In Ivan Turgenev’s Fathers and Sons, the intruder in the Kirsanov household, Bazarov, makes it amply clear that he disapproves of…

Aug 28, 2018

Without Tagore, Bengali Wouldn’t Be as Alive as It Is Today

Aug 28, 2018

Can We Imagine Something More? Reckoning with Naomi Klein’s No Is Not Enough

In his lecture “The Robbery of the Soil,” Rabindranath Tagore imagines the moon to have been once hospitable to life. This, he tells us…

Aug 28, 2018

Can We Imagine Something More? Reckoning with Naomi Klein’s No Is Not Enough

Aug 28, 2018

A bombing love affair between Italians and Bengalis

Most Bengalis are like Benito Mussolini when it comes to their relationship with Rabindranath Tagore. Tagore visited Italy twice, in 1925…

Jan 19, 2018

A bombing love affair between Italians and Bengalis

Jan 19, 2018

A Sikh story

“There he is. Slit the bastard’s throat”, cried someone from the mob. “Here, take my sword”, another announced. “Motherfucker, it isn’t…

Aug 28, 2017

A Sikh story

Aug 28, 2017

The eunuch in Dacca

“Take off your lungi”, the major instructed the passer-by. “Hindu ya Mussalman?”, he asked his underlings. “There is nothing in his…

Aug 27, 2017

The eunuch in Dacca

Aug 27, 2017

Memories of 1967

Mashima was inconsolable. Bela di held her by her wrists fighting hard against nature’s most tenacious and uncompromising force: a mother’s…

Aug 22, 2017

Memories of 1967

Aug 22, 2017

Nehru Sahib and Jinnah Sahib

“No, I have been generously fed at Sarat Bose’s by his family”, said Jawaharlal Nehru. “That was in Calcutta. You are now in Bombay”…

Aug 2, 2017

Nehru Sahib and Jinnah Sahib

Aug 2, 2017

Arko Dasgupta

Arko Dasgupta

Here you will find some of my writings (fiction and nonfiction) from 2017 to 2021. For more recent and ongoing projects, visit me on https://arkodasgupta.com.

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