PROLIFERA XI
EDITORIAL
Words from the Curator of the theme of Parents : Parenthood // Myths & Truths
A few quotes to begin with –
Swami Vivekananda’s on Motherhood – “Eternal, unquestioning self-surrender to Mother alone can give us peace. Love Her for Herself, without fear or favour. Love Her because you are Her child.”
“My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person: He believed in me.” – Jim Valvano
“I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father’s protection.” – Sigmund Freud
“A good father is one of the most unsung, unpraised, unnoticed, and yet one of the most valuable assets in our society.” – Billy Graham
“My father didn’t tell me how to live. He lived and let me watch him do it.” – Clarence Budington Kelland
“One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.” – George Herbert
In this issue of EKL Review, we explored in a section the idea of PARENTS — the possibility of new feelings, emotions and strengths that can perhaps reshape the human family-dynamics forever.
Why do humans create families – is it only to be with people and create a community or are there some universal secrets behind this creation of humans?
Can you create your own world?
Let my world dream of you, let my senses feel you…
let your voice reach the zenith of this earth and your
essence spread the light of wisdom across the globe,
you are mine and I am yours, we were born on the same day.
A child and a parent are the same air that humans breathe to be alive, yet there are stories in which some children are born to the wrong parents; and many parents fail to hold onto their children.
Hoping that we can decode the essence of being a parent and a child to another human, and create a bridge that would let us walk together towards the light of eternity.
Anindita Bose
Curator, “Parents::Parenthood”
Editor, EKL Review
AUGUST, 2024
Parents::Parenthood // Myths & Truths
Essay
Parental Utopia — Jesús Sepúlveda (Chile/ USA)
Don’t You Dare: A Phenomenology of Violence — Tim Tomlinson (USA)
Fathers and Sons: A Tale of Two Upbringings — Sarabjeet Garcha (India)
Parenthood — Bob DCosta (India)
Poetry
A Poem by Sabine Venaruzzo (France)
A Poem by Iryna Vikyrchak (Ukraine / France)
A Poem by Tushar Dhawal Singh (India) – translated by Nikita Parik
Photography
“Bonds on Earth…” – Photographs by Biswajit Mukherjee
Gale Acuff – One day I’ll be dead and that will be the end
Basab Mondal – puns and palindromes
Mandakini Bhattacherya – No Man’s Land
Satya Sanjivan Nayak –Silhouette
Paramita Mukherjee Mullick – Spacelessness
John Davis – Phantoms from Sand
John Grey – My Home Alone Story
Shontay Luna – Facing My Demons
Bart Edelman – The Dreadful Cap
Jeffrey Zable – The Realization
Jonathan Fletcher – Watching a Rock Hudson Western at the Briscoe
Jina Kundu – Gods and Monsters
Debadyuti Dasgupta – A Lovely Morning
Jay Passer – The Old Country Beckoning with Promises of Make-Up Sex
The Mandala Speaks – Malashri Lal and Sanjukta Dasgupta
Moonstruck Memories – Abhijit Palchoudhuri and Kushal Poddar
Interviewing Saikat Majumdar on his new novel The Remains of the Body
Extract from A House of Words (Festschrift in Honour of Keki N. Daruwalla Edited by Usha Akella)
An Epistolary Review of Basudhara Roy’s Write to Me by Sufia Khatoon