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

February 4, 2019 | Manash 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, moored to the ghat, Se...
In Gandhi’s Name

October 30, 2018 | Manash Firaq Bhattacharjee

Statue of Gandhi along San Francisco’s Embarcadero / Courtesy of Ilya Yakubovich / Flickr To the farmers who braved the police on Gandhi’s birth anniversary The farmers left their f...
The Holocaust Has Moved Hands

May 24, 2018 | Manash Firaq Bhattacharjee

Courtesy of Flickr / PalestineRemembered.com It 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 condu...
A Poem for Nadia Murad on World Trafficking Day

July 26, 2017 | Manash 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 and c...
A Poem for Maryam Mirzakhani

July 20, 2017 | Manash 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 Meda...