"We need to rediscover our emotional language for nature and rivers, and not just talk in the language of statistics. In Sikkim a river follows you everywhere, like the moon": Sumana Roy. Stellar River Dialogues at @iicdelhi w Sumana, Parineeta Dandekar, kishalay b 🏞️

Fantastic!

How did a middle-aged Bangladeshi refugee, abandoned by her husband and, later, her own family, come to have this effect on teenage children in a small town in sub-Himalayan Indian Bengal? @sumanasiliguri: himalmag.com/culture/the-we…

A review of my book PROVINCIALS (Yale University Press ; Aleph Book Company ) by Kartik Chauhan Kartik in the Deccan Herald. (I am happy.) deccanherald.com/features/books… @

"Her Bangla was a thing of leaves and fruit and stems and roots – her forest." @sumanasiliguri on how a sharp-tongued refugee made a forest of the Bangla language himalmag.com/culture/the-we…

"Chattopadhyay has a feel for running, and for words, and it's a lovely mix." One of the finest writers we are blessed with, Rohit Brijnath reviews Runner. What an honour!

Free webinar: The Quest for the Plant Script with Author Sumana Roy Sumana Roy, Tue, Sep 24, 2024. 5:30–7pm ET. Also in-person in Cambridge, MA. Sponsored by the Thinking with Plants and Fungi initiative, Center for the Study of World Religions Harvard Divinity

Rohan Chhetri’s English translation of #AvinashShrestha’s Nepali poems is available with us. You could order it from our website. Here’s the link to our web-store: rachnabooks.com/product/the-du…

I have two poems, SANDAKPHU and KURSEONG TOURIST LODGE, in the new issue of LiteraryActivism literaryactivism.com/two-poems/

"A severe moralist frustrated with an unfair world, Maya-mashi was seeking justice in the natural law of plant life. For what else is there in our proverbs about plants?" @sumanasiliguri writes: himalmag.com/culture/the-we…

Why have our writers, artists, thinkers, & scholars been compelled to turn their attention towards the ‘plant script’ in the last one hundred years? Join Sumana Roy at Harvard Divinity for her talk "The Quest for the Plant Script” 9/24, 5:30 PM ET harvard.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

Even as caste-marginalised, non-brahmin scholars and perspectives fight for more room, the intellectual crisis of brahmin-centricism in Southasian humanities looks set to persist for years to come. From October 2023, writes Gajendran Ayyathurai himalmag.com/culture/buddhi…

How did a middle-aged Bangladeshi refugee, abandoned by her husband and, later, her own family, come to have this effect on teenage children in a small town in sub-Himalayan Indian Bengal? @sumanasiliguri: himalmag.com/culture/the-we…

"A severe moralist frustrated with an unfair world, Maya-mashi was seeking justice in the natural law of plant life. For what else is there in our proverbs about plants?" @sumanasiliguri writes: himalmag.com/culture/the-we…

I'll be speaking about THE PLANT SCRIPT, my new work in philosophical botany, at HARVARD UNIVERSITY on 24th September. Tuesday, September 24, 2024, 5: 30 – 7 pm Common Room, 42 Francis Ave. Cambridge, MA cswr.hds.harvard.edu/news/upcoming-… Thanks to Rachael Petersen for organising this.

My Ashoka University colleague Sumana Roy is blazing new and important intellectual trails.

This is a must attend event, if one is in Boston. Sharmila Sen

How did a middle-aged Bangladeshi refugee, abandoned by her husband and, later, her own family, come to have this effect on teenage children in a small town in sub-Himalayan Indian Bengal? @sumanasiliguri: himalmag.com/culture/the-we…

"Maya-mashi refused to take any criticism, even if it was for her own good. She likened herself to plants that had no use for suggestions from gardeners and admirers." @sumanasiliguri on how a sharp-tongued refugee made a forest of the Bangla language himalmag.com/culture/the-we…