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Nitoo Das

NITOO DAS teaches English at Indraprastha College for Women, University of Delhi. She was born in Guwahati, but came to Delhi in 1994 for her higher studies. Her PhD dealt with constructions of the Assamese Identity under the British (1826-1920). Das’ poetry works with voice, soundscape and comic defamiliarisation. Her first collection, Boki, was published by Virtual Artists Collective, Chicago, in September 2008. She can be contacted at river.slant[at]gmail[dot]com and she blogs at http://riversblueelephants.blogspot.com.

AN INTRODUCTION by Nitoo Das

January 1, 2010 Contributed By: Nitoo Das

I contributed this poem to a blog, where I was asked to select one of my poems that I “consider feminist or woman-centric,” and I dithered for months because I could not come to a conclusion about two issues: 1) Which facet of my feminism should I display? and 2) Why should I privilege that […]

Filed Under: Poetry Posted On: January 1, 2010

LETTER FROM RAMABAI TO HER HUSBAND by Nitoo Das

January 1, 2010 Contributed By: Nitoo Das

Beloved, I’m tired and this drying body remembers the crane- white of your nails tonight. The widows come in limp droves everyday and my ears scorch with their words. Today, Shanta told me “They gave me powders to choke my daughter.” Her hands kept fluttering to her head as if to touch dream hair. Sometimes […]

Filed Under: Poetry Posted On: January 1, 2010

Contributor Bios for Issue 2 Winter 2010

January 1, 2010 Contributed By: Aaron Burch, Alexander Keefe, Alyssa Pelish, Anne McPeak, Antara Datta, Anthony Key, Barbara Hamby, Ben George, C. J. Martin, Cai Yuan, Christopher Spranger, Chuck Richardson, Cindy M. Carter, Craig Nova, Dan Venne, Daniele Pantano, David Bowen, David Kirby, David R. Slavitt, Elizabeth Switaj, Geoffrey Gatza, Georg Trakl, Ida Stewart, Jacob Knabb, JJ Xi, Jodee Stanley, Joshua Ware, Kathy Fagan, Kent Johnson, Marcus Slease, Mark Smith-Soto, Marlon Frisby, Mary Kasimor, Maya Kóvskaya, Megan Gannon, Miles Waggener, Miriam Kotzin, Mithu Sen, Naeem Mohaiemen, Nicholas Manning, Nitoo Das, Okla Elliott, Paul Crenshaw, Rana Dasgupta, Randall Radic, Raul Clement, Raymond Hammond, Sabuhi Jiwani, Stephan Clark, T. P. Sabitha, T. R. Hummer, Tao Aimin, Tejal Shah, Tony Trigilio, William Hurst

Issue 2 Winter 2010 TAO AIMIN is known for her anthropological works made from the washboards of rural woman. Over the years she has collected thousands of these boards, recording the stories and faces of the women whose hands wore these boards down through the recursive repetition of monotonous labor. Creating installations and experimental ink […]

Filed Under: Contributor Bios Posted On: January 1, 2010

MAYDAY Magazine: Issue 2 Winter 2010

January 1, 2010 Contributed By: Aaron Burch, Alexander Keefe, Alyssa Pelish, Anne McPeak, Antara Datta, Anthony Key, Barbara Hamby, Ben George, C. J. Martin, Cai Yuan, Christopher Spranger, Chuck Richardson, Cindy M. Carter, Craig Nova, Dan Venne, Daniele Pantano, David Bowen, David Kirby, David R. Slavitt, Elizabeth Switaj, Geoffrey Gatza, Georg Trakl, Ida Stewart, Jacob Knabb, JJ Xi, Jodee Stanley, Joshua Ware, Kathy Fagan, Kent Johnson, Marcus Slease, Mark Smith-Soto, Marlon Frisby, Mary Kasimor, Maya Kóvskaya, Megan Gannon, Miles Waggener, Miriam Kotzin, Mithu Sen, Naeem Mohaiemen, Nicholas Manning, Nitoo Das, Okla Elliott, Paul Crenshaw, Rana Dasgupta, Randall Radic, Raul Clement, Raymond Hammond, Sabuhi Jiwani, Stephan Clark, T. P. Sabitha, T. R. Hummer, Tao Aimin, Tejal Shah, Tony Trigilio, William Hurst

ART curated by Maya Kóvskaya PRACTICES, POWER & THE PUBLIC SPHERE: Dialogical Space & Multiple Modernities in Asian Contemporary Art ART NONFICTION Maya Kóvskaya Public Action Art and Performative Interventions in the Chinese Public Sphere ART NONFICTION William Hurst (performance photography by Han Bing) ORPHANS OF PROGRESS: Workers and Political Discourse in Post-Socialist China ART […]

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