Sandeep Banerjee

Section 06 · Essays for General Readers

06Public Writing

Essays for general readers on film, utopia, nation and imagination, and Kolkata’s National Library, in English and Bengali, with a translation of Bengali poetry.

Essays and Articles6

  1. 2026
    “A Chimera of Epic Proportions: On Nolan’s Odyssey.” TheLastDVD, issue 6 (2026).
  2. 2022
    “স্বপ্ন হলেও সত্যি: অসম্ভবের রাজনীতি প্রসঙ্গে” [“A Truthful Dream: On the Politics of the Impossible”]. Bangla Journal 27 (2022): 64–72.In Bengali.
  3. 2022
    “To Dream, Perchance to Change.” Café Dissensus, issue 61 (2022).
  4. 2022
    “ImagiNation, or the Politics of Nation and Imagination.” Montréal Serai 35, no. 3 (2022).
  5. 2020
    “Utopianism and its Discontents.” Marx, Asia, and the History of the Present. episteme, issue 3 (2020).
  6. 2009
    “Epiphany and Exasperation: The National Library.” In Kolkata, Book City: Readings, Fragments, Images, eds. Jennie Renton and Sria Chatterjee, 163–72. Textualities, 2009.

Translation

  1. 2018
    “‘Whether Flowers Bloom or Not’: Selections from Bengali Poetry.” Harf: A Journal of South Asian Studies 3 (2018): 41–45.