Re-Markings Celebrates 20 eventful years of Sustained Excellence

 

Re-Markings

20^th Anniversary Special Number

Vol. 20 No.1 March 2021

www.re-markings.com

Editorial

On this historic occasion of Re-Markings’ 20^th birth anniversary, I deem it an honour and privilege to greet and address the vibrant community of writers, scholars, academics and readers who remained steadfastly associated with the journal since we began our journey in March 2002. As my mind travels back in time, I remember how my friends and well-wishers had cautioned me then against venturing into the less known terrain of journal publication. Inspired by my resolve to create an enduring platform for dissemination and exchange of ideas on issues and concerns of human import worldwide, I refused to be perturbed by the anxiety and fear of the unknown. Consequently, Re-Markings was launched. However, not unmindful of the hurdles and challenges I was likely to encounter on my journey, I had consciously declared at the end of my editorial in the inaugural issue: “The Gita says. ‘Every surface derives its soil from the depths even as every shadow reflects the nature of the substance.’ I am optimistic that Re-Markings will find effective sustenance in what it has to offer.”

Today, 20 years and 44 issues later, it is an immensely satisfying feeling  to comprehend how, through 1500+ interviews, essays, articles, research papers, reviews, stories, plays and poems, Re-Markings has succeeded in creating an enviable climate of opinion in contemporary critical and creative discourse. The encomiums received from celebrity writers from India and other parts of the globe bear ample testimony to the love and endearment that have been so generously showered by those who have enjoyed a deep sense of belonging in their relationship to Re-Markings. At the same time, their profuse love and appreciation is also a call for an enhanced degree of responsibility in continuing to sustain and take forward the hallmark of excellence that the journal has acquired in two decades of its publication. With the precision and regularity reminiscent of the two equinoxes, every effort has always been made to ensure that the readers receive their copy of Re-Markings on or before the first of March and September each year.

In these times of crisis, upheavals and cataclysmic changes we must accept the fact that the personal and the political are inextricably intertwined and that no policy of isolation is possible. As responsible citizens of the world, it is incumbent upon us to rise above our own limited interests and objectives and become empathic to the oppression, poverty, discrimination, trauma, violence, bigotry, pain and suffering that we witness all around us. If we have had to contend with the unprecedented havoc wrought by the COVID-19 pandemic that has left in its wake millions dead and a staggering number of people struggling for survival, we have also been constrained to witness with disbelief and dismay how some diabolically inspired Trump-like figures have become desperate to prove to the world that ‘absolute power corrupts absolutely.’

At such critical junctures in mankind’s onward march, the glimmer of hope seems to lie in the power and transformative potential of words that we use in articulating our feelings and concerns through the medium of speech and writing. In this context a remark by T. S. Eliot seems quite pertinent: “To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life.”

Even a cursory glance at the table of contents of this celebratory edition of Re-Markings will reveal the journal’s continued commitment to offer our worthy readers stimulating and provocative intellectual delicacies catering to multiple approaches to life and literature. The urge to embrace the spirit of universal brotherhood has been a motivating factor in helping us transcend and overcome boundaries and barriers of nation, culture, caste, class, colour, race, gender, ideology etc. While conversations with personalities from the U.S. and Israel bring to us the happenings in powerful nations, the talk with a Dalit rickshaw-puller-turned-author showcases the fact that even the marginalized can be the torch-bearers of change through their active engagement with the written word. Inspirational historical figures like Pandit Ishwarchandra Vidyasagar and ‘Shaheed’ Bhagat Singh teach us, through their visions and deeds, how individuals, fired with a visionary zeal, can activate social as well as political revolution. It is equally significant that insightful erudite critiques and creative renderings from variant cultures and climes have always been and will continue to be the mainstay of our journal.

Before closing this editorial note, I am happy to put on record my grateful thanks to one and all who have contributed in whatever way possible to spread the blooming fragrance of our mission to make the world better. I would also like to announce that our website, so aesthetically handled by our Executive Editor, Sandeep K. Arora, has on display the Editorials, the list of contents for all issues beginning March 2002. The process is already on for providing online access to back numbers of Re-Markings.

With warmest good wishes for a safer, healthier and brighter 2021,

Nibir K. Ghosh

Chief Editor  

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The 20-year anniversary of Re-Markings is a cause for celebration. For two decades I've read this excellent and ground-breaking publication, which with every issue brings its readers the work of award-winning writers, talented scholars, and critical thinkers from around the world. It is a cornucopia of cultural inclusion, and I feel privileged that my work has appeared on its pages. One might say Re-Markings is India's finest literary ambassador to the world.

— Charles Johnson

US National Book Award Winning Writer, UOW, Seattle, USA

 

I am delighted to learn that Re-Markings has reached a new milestone in its distinguished journey as a literary and historical review. I recall with pleasure the excellent interview that Dr. Nibir Ghosh conducted with me on the challenges facing contemporary India. I enjoyed my visit to Agra where I spoke on the political and cultural legacy of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose at a wonderful gathering convened by Re-Markings. I wish the journal all the very best in its future career and hope it will continue to enrich politically engaged and ethically informed intellectual discourse in our country and beyond.

— Sugata Bose

Eminent Harvard University Historian; Chairperson, Netaji Research Bureau, Kolkata and former Member of Parliament (Lok Sabha)

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2020 was a sad year—so much lives perished, got harvested by the grim reaper. Mainstream and social media bristled with news about the Corona Virus. COVID, COVID everywhere—grim headlines assaulted us—breakfast, lunch, dinner.  Uncertainty and fear went viral.  It is truly a malignant year, perhaps best described as Annus Horribilis.  

But all is not gloom and doom.  As we get diminished by the somber news and the countless funerals globally, there are anniversaries to celebrate: the discovery of efficacious and hopefully safe vaccines— Pfizer’s and Moderna’s and Astra Zeneca’s, as well as promising new therapies.  Beyond that are also the continued bright signs of the joys of life: the musical, the visual and the literary arts. The world has witnessed major trials this year, but it is not about to end. The sun is still rising. Just look out in the morning.

In this spirit of optimism, I am excited about the twentieth anniversary of Re-Markings, a literary and cultural publication that brings the world together through creative and critical oeuvres that celebrate the culti-vation of humane impulses and the triumph of the human spirit. The world has in the past few years been usurped by authoritarian and nativist leaders across the globe preaching a vile nationalism. They want to erect walls rather than build bridges. They want to imprison rather than unleash the human spirit. They simplify complex problems and pit the innocent against each other. They deny science, including climate science—and withdraw to crude atavism.  I am reassured by platforms like Re-Markings where dialogue triumphs over tone-deafness, where our common humanity is celebrated over the hereditary differences of tribe, belief or geography. Twenty years might be youth for a human life but a significant, non-trivial milestone for a literary publication.

— Tijan M. Sallah

The Gambia’s Renowned Poet and Writer, Maryland, USA

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Twenty years is a very long time, especially these days, for a print magazine. Re-Markings has enjoyed a rich and rewarding global life of creativity and compassion. I look forward to reading the anniversary issue at my home in California, which is far from India, and really not far at all, when Re-Markings arrives.  

— Jonah Raskin

Writer, Poet and Journalist, California, USA

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We are blessed when good things keep going and growing. Editing a literary publication can be rewarding but also a difficult task. Writing can be fun. Editing is always work. Nibir K. Ghosh should be admired for giving breath and life to Re-Markings for twenty years. His journal should be viewed as a resource for future thinkers. Happy Anniversary! Thank you for creating a "palace" for international ideas and scholarship.

— E. Ethelbert Miller

Writer and Literary Activist, Washington, D.C., USA

 

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When, oh when shall I receive my copy of the celebratory issue of         Re-Markings? It may not be so long a wait. But in these destitute times, nothing seems to engage our nerves like poetry. It was after all a poet who raised the most pertinent question long ago which sounds so immediate and urgent today. "...and what are poets for in a destitute time?" asks Friedrich Holderin. In the third stanza of the same elegy, Holderin pronounces the law that rules over the poets:

One thing stands firm: whether it be near noon

Or close to midnight, a measure ever endures,

Common to us all; yet to each his own is allotted too,

Each of us goes toward and reaches the place that he can.

The only journal that caters to the dire need of poetry lovers like me is Re-Markings. We are living in the most dangerous times, but as Holderin puts it: “But where there is danger, there grows also what saves.” Everything in our life to-day has been Absurd – even tragedy. Poetry is all we have – our only defence against the reign of the Absurd that grips us right now. Still, as Rilke says the unsayable, “man’s being is more adventurous than Life itself, … more daring.” My heartfelt felicitations and all good wishes to Re-Markings on this memorable milestone.

—   Ramesh Chandra Shah

Padmashree & Sahitya Akademi awardee Writer and Poet

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For twenty years, it has been a miracle and an accomplishment every time Re-Markings produced a new issue, and particularly now during a pandemic or our culturally-challenging times. The journal has consis-tently provided a finely curated platform for eclectic perspectives on intellectual to artistic and political issues. I was privileged to be part of their special edition of A World Assembly of Poets, a testament to the journal in always striving for greater inclusivity and a wider representa-tion of contemporary voices. The world is necessarily better for it.

—Cyril Wong

Acclaimed Singaporean Writer and Poet

 

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On the occasion of its 20th birthday, my congratulations go to the editorial team and advisory board of Re-Markings for their successful attempt to inform and also bring together international scholars of English Letters and Cultural Studies. The journal's special emphasis on New Literatures in English gives voice to a growing body of diverse literatures and is of particular interest for European readers like myself. I thank you for your good work and wish you many happy returns! Best wishes, and stay safe!

— Walter W. Hoelbling

Writer, Poet, Critic, University of Graz, Austria

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In the inaugural issue of Re-Markings, Chief Editor Dr. Nibir K. Ghosh shared his aspirations for the journal: "I humbly hope that the academic fraternity in India and elsewhere will warmly welcome this enterprise and contribute towards its growth with the sunshine of thought and breath of life."  Warm welcome ensued and has blossomed into steady commitment twenty years on. As we fans of Re-Markings celebrate, we take heart in the diversity of Re-Markings’ contents, including literary analysis, short stories, poems, essays, interviews, book and film reviews, and editorials. Re-Markings brings scholars together across cultures and borders and promotes mutual understanding. Mutual understanding is an aim of the Fulbright Program, the international academic and cultural exchange program sponsored by the United States Department of State and partner governments. J. William Fulbright, who sponsored the legislation creating the program in 1946, wrote in The Price of Empire, "[t]he essence of intercultural education is the acquisition of empathy – the ability to see the world as others see it, and to allow for the possibility that others may see something we have failed to see, or may see it more accurately."

A refereed international journal, Re-Markings sets a high standard for its authors and provides consistently high quality to its readers. The robust development of the website www.re-markings.com has expanded the journal's reach and value as a source of ideas and platform for its contributors. I commend the editors, advisory board and authors. I look forward with great interest to the journal's continuing evolution in the coming decade.

— Jane Schukoske

Former Executive Director of U.S. Educational Foundation in India, New Delhi & Professor, University of Baltimore School of Law, USA                        

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It is a pleasure to congratulate Founder and Chief Editor Nibir Ghosh and his team at Re-Markings as they celebrate their 20^th year. Beginning in 2002, their issues reflect an awareness of the best of contemporary Indian and world literature and the importance of bridging our scattered literary worlds. Through in-depth essays, reviews, interviews, poetry by world-famous authors, Re-Markings has become a valuable carto-grapher of our turbulent century. Its mast-head statement of intent is not an idle boast but has been fulfilled with every issue. It has become “a biannual journal of English Letters aiming to provide a healthy forum for scholarly and authoritative views on broad socio-political and cultural issues of human import as evidenced in literature, art, television, cinema and journalism with special emphasis on New Literatures in English including translations and creative excursions.” And most importantly and necessarily, “Re-Markings makes an earnest endeavour to en-courage newcomers and young scholars by introducing their work to the academic fraternity in the country and all over the globe.”

The Special Number Volume 16 No. 4 of November 2017, titled A World Assembly of Poets: Contemporary Poems, an anthology guest-edited by Tijan M. Sallah, was a landmark publication that brought together poets of varying reputations from all continents and many islands, with perceptive editorial introductions that gave the variety of today’s poetry a context that goes beyond what has become familiar and somewhat worn in academia and literary circles. All the best to Re-Markings as it voyages bravely into the oceans of another twenty years of endeavor and measurable achievement.

— John Robert Lee

Saint Lucian Writer and Poet

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[Dear Nibir] I am very glad to have an association with Re-Markings not only because of your intelligent and warm appreciation of my uncle W. H. Auden, but because of your openness to ideas and interest in different cultures and wish for harmony in the world. Your balanced and critical view of Empire is especially relevant now when immature and, in many cases, ignorant reactions to what indeed have been serious in-justices but pulled out of context as if there was no such thing as history and as if prejudice which we all have in one form or another can be reduced to racial discrimination rather than the complex psychological phenomenon that it is and which we all have individually to monitor in ourselves. Felicitations on the 20^th Anniversary!

—   Anita Auden Money

            Academic Counsellor and Writer, London, U.K.

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I am delighted to learn that Re-Markings is celebrating the 20th anni-versary of its publication with the current issue. I have been privileged to appear on its pages through my conversation with Prof. Nibir K. Ghosh and Dr. Sunita Rani Ghosh, a conversation that went a long way to make my life and writings familiar to readers, writers, academics and scholars in different parts of the world. Again, it was a pleasure to be included as a poet in A World Assembly of Poets, the signature special volume published by Re-Markings in 2017. Re-Markings is doing commendable work, under the exemplary leadership of its Chief Editor, Nibir K. Ghosh, in addressing issues and concerns seminal to main-stream as well as marginal literatures. My frequent conversations and occasional meetings with Prof. Ghosh provide much food for thought and reflection. In extending my heartfelt felicitations to Re-Markings on this memorable milestone, I am optimistic that it will continue to shed the light of wisdom in creating a world without borders and barriers.

— Sharankumar Limbale

Dalit Literary Icon and Activist

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[Dear Professor Ghosh,] I am glad to learn that Re-Markings, a literary journal of repute under your eminent editorship, is celebrating twenty years of its continuous publication with a special number to be brought out in March 2021. As an eager reader, and an occasional contributor, of Re-Markings it is really consoling to find that a non-commercial lite-rary journal has survived twenty years of rampant marketisation, setting up a secure enclave for creative writing and critical discourses. Besides, Re-Markings has served as a bridge between languages across seven seas as its numbers focussed on world poetry and literary theory evidence this. I offer my greetings to you on this occasion and wish a long and fruitful journey ahead for Re-Markings.

—   Arun Kamal

Sahitya Akademi Award recipient Writer and Poet

 

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Congratulations Dr. Ghosh on two decades of Re-Markings, your distinctive journal that celebrates the life of the mind as it provides a platform for scholars, artists, and poets from around the globe to share commentary, insights, and revelations, and connect with a devoted international audience. I’m very impressed by the wealth of knowledge and inspiration you present year after year with articles that reveal, assess, illuminate, and provide hope. Your own powerful words link your contributors and an involved audience with writing that transcends geographical borders. I admire your tireless efforts as well as your generosity, compassion and inspiration, and your gift for offering solace and wisdom even in the dark times. On a personal note, I am grateful for your very welcome encouragement and friendship, and am extremely honored by your careful attention to my work. And I especially appre-ciate that, with each issue, Re-Markings confirms that we are all interconnected, all more alike than different, all stronger together. Many thanks and best wishes for continued success Dr. Ghosh.

— Robin Lindley

Features Editor, History News Network, Seattle, USA

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20 years of Re-Markings! Twenty. That sounds like a lot. But it's over quickly. What did we do 20 years ago? Were we in love? Have we started a new job? As if it were yesterday! In the special number, Vol.16 No.4, November 2017, I am represented with some poems. As if it were yesterday! To get to know Tijan M. Sallah and Nibir Ghosh! What honour! What a fundamental exchange across continents! Europe-Asia-America-Africa. And you started this dialogue, Nibir Ghosh. I wish the anniversary edition the warm words it needs and the strength for another 20 years! Then we'll talk again. I really hope so!

— Tuncay Gary

 Poet and Director, Literatur & Theater Werkstatt, Berlin, Germany

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Re-Markings is a true world ambassador representing and giving voice to the craft of writing and her crafters: the writers. Its international reach serves a very familial role: introducing writers to one another and keep-ing the connection strong and sustained. Happy 20, dear Re-Markings! May you grow from strength to strength for many years to come!

—   Raks Morakabe Seakhoa

South African Writer and Activist

 

CONTENTS

Encomiums: Re-Markings@20 / 7-13

 

‘Art can comfort and disturb’: A Conversation with Robin Lindley – Nibir K. Ghosh / 14

 

Views from California – Jonah Raskin / 29

Reflections on the 2020 Election for the U.S. Presidency / 29, A Song for Louise Glück: Nobel Prize Winner in Literature 2020 / 31, Albert Camus’s The Plague: A Prescient Work of Fiction for the Present Day / 33

 

‘Learn the narrative of the other’: A Conversation with Joanna Chen – Nibir K. Ghosh / 36

Shaping Spaces for Multiple Equalities: Ishwarchandra Vidyasagar, the Indian Renaissance Man – Shanker Ashish Dutt & Zaara Urouj / 44

 

Creative Voices from Saint Lucia in Sent Lisi: A Contemporary Anthology – George Goddard / 52

Between Borrowed Frames and Reading Glasses:

The Text in the Classroom – Jasbir Jain / 62

 

Death in the Novels of Virginia Woolf – Smita Jha / 69

It’s Covid, Stupid… – Omkar Sane / 79

Rebirth of a Peepal Tree – Debasish Chakraborti / 85

Kazuo Ishiguro’s Nocturnes: Ode to the Nuance of Music –Mini Nanda / 88

 

From Dalit Rickshaw-Puller to Celebrity Author: A Conversation with Manoranjan Byapari – Anuradha Sen / 95

 

Atheism of a Visionary Martyr: Bhagat Singh and his Select Writings – Roopali Khanna / 100

 Humanism without Borders: Nibir Ghosh and Re-Markings – Margarita R. Merino de Lindsay / 109

Salman Rushdie’s Midnight's Children: A Postcolonial Study – Mandeep Kaur / 113

 

Overcoming Disaster: Victor Frankl’s Man’s Search for Meaning – Saurabh Agarwal / 119

Racial Discrimination in Balli Kaur Jaswal’s Inheritance and Sugarbread – Anjali Singh / 125

From Symbols to Cognizance: Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus – Sangeeta Verma / 133

Woman as Nonconformist Rebel: Bharati Mukherjee’s Jasmine – Raja Pandey / 140

Poetry

Shernavaz Buhariwala – The Last Fight / 147

Asmat Jahan – The Cry of a Migrant / 148,

Agni Pariksha / 149

Short Story

Worm’s Eye View – Seema Sinha / 150

Review Essay –

Reflections ‘Unmisted’: Nibir K. Ghosh’s Mirror from the Indus – Rajesh Sharma / 159

Views/Comments of 

Contributors and readers on the Celebratory Anniversary Number

Nibir, these pages are very impressive. I'm humbled to see my praise for Re-Markings on the cover, and delighted to see the interview with Robin Lindley. I've only just skimmed the opening pages, but I can see how rich this issue is. Congratulations! Re-Markings is a beacon of light in our troubled world. - Charles Johnson

Sincere good wishes on this special occasion of RE-MARKINGS' 20th Anniversary. You say my blessings have been a great source of encouragement for you all of these twenty years. No,  Nibir,  it's totally your own work,  and it comes from the dedication you carry in your life. It makes all of us proud of your achievement. Love,  Jayantada - Jayanta Mahapatra 

Dear Nibir Ghosh, that's wonderful news! I am very happy to keep reading your PDF file in the anniversary edition. My first impression of the cover: it fits perfectly. The right royal color chosen to celebrate an anniversary. I then longingly wait for the printed book to hold in my hands and read.

With warmest good wishes and many thanks, Tuncay Gary

Dear Nibir, You've done it again - with a little help from friends near and far. I hope you can celebrate a bit. If I were there in Agra I would want to celebrate with you - maybe at the lovely hotel you found for me with a view of the Taj, if I remember correctly.  Jonah Raskin

An astonishing piece of work, this number! 20 Years usefully lived and served, when the Enemies of Letters have turned away from the world. You are indeed a Lone Ranger in this trade. My congratulations. Best wishes, K. Narayana Chandran,   The University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad

Dear Dr. Ghosh, Congratulations on publishing yet another seminal issue of Re-Markings and thinking of me. I am honored to receive your email with the journal attached. Jilani Warsi, City University, New York.

Dear Prof. Ghosh, What a delight to wake up to this celebratory issue.  The issue is brand tea in the morning, freshly picked and brewed—with essays that are sweet delights! I have also gone half way through your essay and it is a moving, historical and literary piece that captures the  struggles of the American experiment. Wonderful work—both.  Thanks, friend! Tijan M. Sallah

Dear Nibir, just read through your conversation with Robin Lindley and glanced at some of the other contributions, and have to congratulate you and your team for a highly interesting and varied selection of international contributions to this anniversary issues. Will read them over the next days. Best wishes, Walter W. Hoelbling

Dear Dr. Nibir Ghosh,

Let me first thank you profusely for sending me a neatly, professionally packed copy of the twentieth anniversary issue of Re-Markings which I received yesterday. I am one of those privileged to read Re-Markings from its beginnings, though from time to time, and follow its trajectory of growth. Twenty years is a milestone not easy to reach for a literary journal which knows no compromise in its scholarly integrity. 20th anniversary for a journal is no easy matter. I know the hard work, dedication, and concern for quality behind it. All appreciation for you.

Re-Markings has attracted accomplished scholars from all over the world from wide-ranging areas of knowledge and given its readers stimulating perspectives on diverse literatures and socio-cultural issues of contemporary import. Please accept my felicitations on this magnificent achievement. To quote Jasbir Jain from the current issue, you have sought to create a "multilogue" between literary frames and socio-cultural or philosophico-aesthetic systems and pursued your objectives with such diligence that you stood as a bulwark against growing mediocrity and rising commercialization. Your interview with  Joanna Chen is interesting for her thought-provoking reply to your question that one should learn from the narrative of the other and that one's own writing intertwines many things including literary translation. It is this breadth of vision that Re-Markings sought to propagate under your learned editorship. Re-Markings has created a milieu for itself and will continue to be read in the decades to come. I feel glad to read the review of your Mirror from the Indus by Rajesh Sharma.

With warm regards to you and Mrs Ghoshji. C. R. Visweswara Rao, former Vice Chancellor, Vikrama Simhapuri University, Nellore

Congratulations for showcasing  the creativity you are gifted with by carving out a new island for blooming persons of all creative endeavors. Dr Ghosh, I can view your passion for Re-Markings. You have seen its growth both with love and concern, as parents do children and a farmer would  sprouting the Field. How challenging it must have been for you all through these long years to encourage the research scholars and maintain quality of your love. This special number is so alluring! I have seen the papers from the rear. I will write more. G.L. Gautam

Hi Nibir! Thanks so much for the 20th Anniversary Issue! Congratulations on this very significant milestone. I have read it and it is varied and interesting. Enlightening to read your interview with  Robin Lindley and Margarita Lindsay's luminous prose. More strength to you. Warm regards to Sunita. Take care.👍🏻😊 Mini Nanda

Thanks for the lovely new Re-Markings. What a delight to see the excellence you have maintained and yet excelled. Warm regards, Rajesh Sharma

Wow! Its a surprise sir. I have received the copy you sent. Extremely grateful for such a gift. Best Regards. Tariq Faraz

I have just received Re-Markings. Congratulations. Great reading the editorial, which is the first thing I read with relish. Prof. Shanker Dutt

Thanks 🙏🙏🙏Congratulations once again. Really a fabulous journal. Will be a great honour if allowed to be a part of it. Gunjan Chaturvedi 🙏🙏🙏

What a pleasure indeed to leaf through this issue! Noted scholars and writers (including my one time professor and  continued inspiration Dr Jasbir Jain), read worthy and thought provoking articles, and perfect production. Congratulations once again! I'm proud to be associated with Re-Markings. Urvashi Sabu

Thank you for keeping me in touch with you and other great scholars through your prestigious journal, RE-MARKINGS. Congratulations on the 20th anniversary of your dream project. Dr. Nand Kumar, former Principal, SSSS College, Meerut.

Dear Prof Ghosh, I was delighted to receiver the March issue of your beloved 'baby' RE-MARKINGS, which has turned 20. I have gone through your editorial and learnt about this glorious joyful and extremely satisfying journey that you have covered. Please keep it up. All my best wishes and blessings are with you. - Dr. Sunder Lal, Ex-Vice-Chancellor, Purwanchal University

Haven't finished reading all of the above yet. Altogether it makes impressive reading.The commentators have done good analysis of the writer.Congratulations. Your writings reflect a lifetime devoted to the study of literature.Going through it all I felt like Alice in Wonderland. Pramila Chawla, B.D. Jain College, Agra