Sumana Roy

  1. “Paayechari: On Writing as Walking,” The Minnesota Review (99), 2022: 120–143, 1 November 2022.
  2. “View from the Ground Floor: A Tree Watcher’s Epiphany,” Open, 23 December 2022.
  3. “Crow, Donkey, Poet: On the Useless in the Poetic,” Literary Hub, 21 December 2022.
  4. “Nandalal Bose and the Political Energy of his Art,” Anandabazar Patrika, 27 August 2022.
  5. ”Exhaust Pipe,“ Book Post, 12 August 2022.
  6. “Nandalal Bose’s People,” Open, 11 August 2022.
  7. “Jagadish Chandra Bose’s book Abyakta,” Anandabazar Patrika, 8 July 2022.
  8. “Watering the Unborn and the Unseen,” Emergence Magazine, 7 April 2022.
  9. “Moss and Dust and the Human Heart,” Yomu, 20 March 2022.
  10. “Writing Water: The Curious Behaviour of W,” Australian Humanities Review 68 (May 2021), 30-37.
  11. “The Pedagogy of Kindness: The Rewards of a Sentimental Education,” Open, 24 December 2021.
  12. “On the Moral and Metaphysical Significance of Aloneness,” Literary Hub, 3 February 2022.
  13. “Understanding our DIY fame culture,” The Indian Express, 14 January 2022.
  14. “Tree Time,” The Paris Review, 30 August 2021
  15. “Certitude of Centre: the Art and Architecture of Domination,” Open, 13 August 2021
  16. “Dukkha,” SAAG: South Asian Avant Garde: A Dissident Anthology, 4 July 2021
  17. “Competition, Comedy, ‘Critical Conditionum’,” Seminar 741, May 2021
  18. The Problem with the Postcolonial Syllabus, The Chronicle of Higher Education, February 2021
  19. “Beyond the Guilt Tax: Revising the Postcolonial Syllabus,” The Point, 29 January 2021
  20. “How to Love in English,” Catapult, 14 January 2021
  21. Bata and the Underground Cuisine of the Shil Pata, Goya Journal, January 2021
  22. “For long, Indian English literary establishment has enforced a culture that can only be called Brahminical” The Indian Express, 19 December 2020.
  23. “Creative-Critical Inc,” Los Angeles Review of Books, 11 December 2020
  24. “The Smell of Rice,” Open, 25 December 2020
  25. “Read without The Sacred Thread”, The Indian Express, 19 December 2020
  26. “Guilt Lit,” Los Angeles Review of Books, 9 September 2020
  27. “The Note Economy: A Brief History of English Literature Exams in Contemporary India,” Himal Southasian, 03 August 2020
  28. Bio Dictatorship, Open, August 2020
  29. “Home is Where the Work is: Writers and Their Workstations,” The Indian Express, 29 April 2020.
  30. “The Island Isolation of Our Times”, The Wire, 20 April 2020
  31. “The Provincial Reader”, Los Angeles Review of Books, 19 April 2020
  32. “Curl of Time”, Hindustan Times, 2 April 2020
  33. “On Being Raised by New Critics in Small Town India,” Los Angeles Review of Books, 8 February 2020
  34. “First Light,” Open, 28 December 2019
  35. “A Writer’s Meditation by the Teesta,” Open, 10 August 2019
  36. “The Warmest Colour,” Indian Express, 3 August 2019
  37. “Vercelli: Where Nothing Happens” Open, 28 June 2019
  38. “On Greatness and Uselessness”, Berfrois, 6 September 2018
  39. “Five or Six Mangoes: How does one remember a tree without fruit?” The Indian Express, 22 April 2018
  40. “Literature is the News that Stays News”, Open, 19 April 2018
  41. “Unaccustomed Earth: A tiny town named Siliguri in north Bengal”, The Indian Express, 8 April 2018
  42. “The Poet as an Architect: How Poems are Designed and Constructed to Convey the Sense of Space”, Scroll.in, 11 March 2018
  43. “Siliguri: My Found Town”, The Common, 13 December 2017
  44. “Raindrops keep falling on my head: How do you teach an infant the language of the rains?” The Indian Express, 9 July 2017
  45. “What Happens When Nothing Happens”, Open, 1 March 2017
  46. “How can Shakespeare’s ‘Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day’ be a love poem in blazing hot India?”, Scroll.in, 21 May 2017
  47. “The Deeply Unserious, Important Work of Amit Chaudhuri”, Los Angeles Review of Books, 16 February 2017
  48. “Remaking the nation: Why India should be renamed Undia”, Scroll.in, 14 May 2016
  49. “One Hundred Years of No Solitude: ‘The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock’ Lives on in India”, Scroll.in, 7 June 2015
  50. “Flower Eaters: The Himalayan Hills Are Awash with the Rhododendron”, The Indian Express. 10 May 2015.
  51. “Indigo: Becoming Blue, Blue Mutiny, Blue Blood”, Warscapes, 6 October2014.
  52. “Dalit Plants”, Warscapes, 6 August 2014.
  53. “Money Plants” Warscapes, 8 June 2014.
  54. “404: Are we a Palindrome People”, Berfrois, June 2014
  55. “We Are All Mamata Now”, The Caravan, June 2012
  56. “Small-town chest-puff”, Himal Southasian, 1 May 2010
  57. Her work has been published in Open, Scroll.in, The Indian Express, Anandabazar Patrika, Daak Bangla, Berfrois, Los Angeles Review of Books, Himal Southasian, Mint, The Caravan.
  58. She wrote a column on plant life for The Hindu Business Line from 2016 to 2021: “Treelogy” The Hindu Business Line, 2006-2021.
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