Manash Firaq Bhattacharjee

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Manash Firaq Bhattacharjee is a poet, writer, and political science scholar. He frequently writes for The Wire and has contributed to the New York Times, Los Angeles Review of Books, Guernica, The Hindu, and Outlook, among other publications. His book of political nonfiction, Looking for the Nation: Towards Another Idea of India, was recently published by Speaking Tiger Books (2018). His previous contributions to WLT include poems for Nadia Murad and Maryam Mirzakhani.

A Post Office without a Country
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February 4, 2019Manash Firaq Bhattacharjee
Natalia Rifai, “Floating Carpet,” Srinagar, Kashmir, 1990 on Agha Shahid Ali’s 70th birth anniversary February 4, 2019 I In the post office, moo…
In Gandhi’s Name
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October 30, 2018Manash Firaq Bhattacharjee
Statue of Gandhi along San Francisco’s Embarcadero / Courtesy of Ilya Yakubovich / FlickrTo the farmers who braved the police on Gandhi’s birth anniversaryThe farmers left their fiel…
The Holocaust Has Moved Hands
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May 24, 2018Manash Firaq Bhattacharjee
Courtesy of Flickr / PalestineRemembered.comIt is wrong and inhuman to impose the Jews on the Arabs. What is going on in Palestine today cannot be justified by any moral code of con…
A Poem for Nadia Murad on World Trafficking Day
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July 26, 2017Manash Firaq Bhattacharjee
Editorial note: This Sunday, July 30, marks the World Day against Trafficking in Persons, established in 2013 by the UN General Assembly. Nadia Murad—nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize…
A Poem for Maryam Mirzakhani
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July 20, 2017Manash Firaq Bhattacharjee
Iranian mathematician Maryam Mirzakhani died of breast cancer on July 15 at the age of 40. A professor at Stanford University, Mirzakhani became the first woman to win the prestigious Fields Medal…