― Italo Calvino, Six Memos For The Next Millennium
Hargun Gujral and Koushik Saha‘s collaborative piece: Loss
Editor’s Note: Hargun had a few lines, coming out as stream of consciousness, for the idea of loss. She needed some anchor to just take them out. Koushik who is an artist used his brush to provide that anchor. Thus came into life this collaborative piece taking us through how one can navigate loss. Loss…
Pritha Banerjee Chattopadhyay and Shamin Kulkarni‘s collaborative work: Awkward Silence and Collecting Dues
Shamin Kulkarni wanted a few lines that would help him take random images, a mark of his collecting dues from his being on a solo journey and his artistic self. DoubleSpeak reached out to Pritha Banerjee Chattopadhyay for some words that can inspire Shamin, even in the most obscure manner. The result is this photostory.…
Writer’s trio Issy Jinarmo‘s collaborative short story: A Little White Lie
Editor’s note: This is a first for DoubleSpeak to publish a short story written by three people who has come to find a single identity through their words. The three authors didn’t know each other before they came together in a writers conference and the trying times of the pandemic made them see they can…
Douglas Colston and Koushik Saha‘s Collaborative piece
The writing part was done by Douglas Colston who was inspired by the old scriptures from Chinese, Old Norse and Latin civilisations. His text is somewhat an artistic blend of translation and interpretations. He calls his text as Organising and arranging – including spinning and weaving fabric or composing poetry – may be associated with…
Koushik Saha and Zai Gulmohar‘s collaborative piece: Raining Words
Editor’s Note: This collaboration has spontaneity written all over it. The image came from Koushik with a hope to find some words and DoubleSpeak reached out to Zai who readily accepted to compliment the image with a quick poem. The collaborators do not know each other but their works find a organic connection in this…
DS Maolalai and Gui Moraes‘s collaborative piece: Hum
Editor’s Note: The poem was submitted by Maolalai for consideration in the poem section and yet the need for the sharp edged images were felt to add more layers to the words. Maolalai’s friend Gui came forward to share his work and compliment the words. the city has a hum like air conditioning in next…
Gemini Lovers‘ collaborative piece: A Hard Life
This is collaboration of what the two writers are seeing in the socio-economic scenario of their our country. Deeply affected by what they see around them, they decided to share their observations with a larger audience others. They have a simple logic for such a collaboration – they love writing and they are both poets…
Linda Crate and Kaushik Saha‘s Collaborative piece: With Nature’s Touch
Poet Linda Crate wrote a poem about nature. The poem could have been existing in its own strength and grace. But transparent water colours from Kaushik Saha promised to add another layer of meaning and interpretation. Linda is from Pennsylvania, USA and Kaushik is from Panagarh, India and yet their expressions found a confluence through…
Pritha Chattopadhyay, Souva Chattopadhyay and Arupratan Ghosh‘s Collaborative piece of poem and images.
Note from the editor: The need for such a collaboration arises, perhaps, from a tangible yet abstract connection between words and images. The poet finds images from the photographers and uses them as almost a punctuation for her poems. One can also imagine the words of the poems to be the unwritten lines in the…
Jibendu Narayan Mazumder and Kaushik Saha‘s collaborative piece: The Hector of our times
The enemy is at your gate, laying a gruelling month-long siege, Savagest of kinsmen, they are coming in numbers from the sea; Armed with firearms they have thronged the busiest streets, Hacking off heads of your men, detaining women who were once free. When the overpowering gloom engulfs everything around, When all of the flickering…
Amy Bassin and Mark Blickley‘s collaborative piece: Recyclable Glass
My latest ekphrasis collaboration with fine arts photographer Amy Bassin, “Recyclable Glass,” was created a bit differently than our previous ones Usually, Amy shows me an image and if it speaks to me, I write a text-based on it. I wrote “Recyclable Class” in response to an ugly incident I recently witnessed on a New…
Joy Banerjee and Riturupa Datta’s collaborative project: Dear time…
Editor’s note: Joy felt the need to speak to time, as if it has been a dear friend to him since long. Words did come out in the form of a letter and yet it found a complementary gift in Riturupa’s illustration. Thus a collaboration happened to add some flesh and blood to an abstract…
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