'The speediest thing that we might have encountered in a town like ours was perhaps the rain in July – I think I am wrong – the speediest thing we would have met was the wind, unruly, a mix of the police and the dacoit...' Sumana Roy meditates on 'provincial time'.

THIS. '...viscous experience of speed would have been pedalling fiercely on our hand-me-down bicycles down a sloping road...' before banging into a stationary lamp-post!!

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🎙️📚 In Southasian literature, it seems that there might not be any other way to see the province except in contrast to the city. So much has been said about cosmopolitanism, but what of provincialism?

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My essay on what I understood as 'provincial time', & what happens when time from the city comes to the provinces, as we see in Vijaydan Detha's Countless Hitlers, possibly one of the best short stories I've read in my life, in Hindustan Times Hindustan Times

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Archipelago Books HarperCollins xiao yue shan Asymptote Journal Fitzcarraldo Editions Book*hug Press Feminist Press Text Publishing Saskia Vogel Arunava Sinha Scroll.in 19) Feature: On Provincials - Postcards from the Peripheries by Sumana Roy (@AlephBookCo), for Paramita Ghosh at The New Indian Express (@tniefeatures TheMorningStandard).

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Sumana Roy : “One of my earliest memories of writing came from the need to write about the place I lived in—as if writing about it would conjure it into existence again.” ❤️❤️sumana roy
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Absolutely! This resonate with my research in the last years and publications like #ReclaimingProvincialism and my forthcoming book! Can’t wait to read your book Sumana Roy 💐💖

The book of margins

In Provincials, writer Sumana Roy pushes up unaired histories and cultures to argue that the provinces and the provincial style are key to much of the arts that we bracket as ‘metropolitan’

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Do read this review of Sumana Roy's Provincials.

🎙️📚In a series of “postcards” from the peripheries of Southasia and beyond, Sumana Roy introduces us to the imaginative world of those who have celebrated provinciality.

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Provincials (Aleph), rightly subtitled “Postcards from the Peripheries”, grew out of a desire to celebrate the margins, the small towns and the ruralscapes that hold breathtaking diversity. She says, “I wanted to rescue people stereotyped for their smallness from a pejorative, to

Sumana Roy discussed the poet-professor in the Indian provinces at the LiteraryActivism symposium on The Writer-Critic and Literary Studies last year. Watch her talk here: [YouTube](youtube.com/watch?v=7JFwFo...)

🎙️📚Growing up in Siliguri, Sumana Roy's experiences have marked her understanding of the provincial reader’s life.

In our latest #SouthasiaReviewofBooks episode, Sumana Roy discuss her book 'Provincials', and more:
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I spoke about the poet-professor in the Indian provinces at the LiteraryActivism symposium on The Writer-Critic and Literary Studies last year.

YouTube link, in case you're interested:
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I loved writing on Sumana Roy's latest, Provincials: Postcards from the Peripheries – a vivid and erudite celebration of the margins away from the metropole. Thank you Paramita Ghosh (@tniefeatures TheMorningStandard) for the opportunity and Aleph Book Company for the review copy.

This is the closest I'll ever be to Kishore Kumar -- not life and death but just one column of newsprint separating us.

A review of Provincials by the writer and translator Areeb Ahmad Areeb Ahmad | اریب احمد.

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Years ago, when someone called Sumana Roy a “provincial”, she had a sudden realisation about her relationship to the world. Areeb Ahmad | اریب احمد 's lovely piece on Sumana Roy 's new book for TNIE Features TheMorningStandard santwanabhattacharya Shahid Faridi
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🎙️📚In 'Provincials', Sumana Roy challenges the dominance of the metropolis and the barriers we tend to put between the rural and urban.

A conversation with Sumana Roy on her latest book and the dignity of provincial life in literature:
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Blending personal narrative with the cultural, sensory, and emotive heritage of overlooked communities, Sumana Roy puts paid to the notion that metropolitan culture is superior while unearthing the exuberance and magic of provincial life, with its quirks, jests, passions,