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A Conversation with George Szirtes

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essay

Words and Images

Dec 24, 2025 • Buku Sarkar

Behind the world we live in

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Words and Images

Nov 26, 2025 • Buku Sarkar

Kalidasa and the fine line between art and pornography

I was saving this post for a special time— maybe when I needed to scrounge for more paid subscribers.

Nov 21, 2025 • Buku Sarkar

The Woman Who Cleaves

Words and Images

Nov 20, 2025 • Buku Sarkar

What The Camera Cannot Keep

Words and Images from Women and Bodies

Nov 13, 2025 • Buku Sarkar

Stillness and the Photographed Body

Part of the words and images series: Women by Women

Nov 11, 2025 • Buku Sarkar

Words and Images

Nov 9, 2025 • Buku Sarkar

Seeing the Mask

Words and Images

Nov 8, 2025 • Buku Sarkar

The Kid: Comedy, Pathos, and the Birth of Charlie Chaplin.

A reminder that my collection of stories, Not Quite A Disaster After All is now available worldwide.

Nov 1, 2025 • Buku Sarkar

The Observer and the Observed and a few Observations

Nov 1, 2025 • Buku Sarkar

The Trouble With Windows

On voyeurism, the flaneur and Hitchcock’s masterpiece Rear Window (Filmstack Inspiration #69)

Oct 25, 2025 • Buku Sarkar

Newsletters

Photography Uncensored

Uncensored and unpublished images from my on going self portrait series Containment Diaries

Containment Diaries

A memoir in progress

The memoirs of Rassundari Debi

Writing Workshops

My Dead Flowers

Fiction, poetry, essays and commentary

fiction

Sometimes a banana is just a Banana

The story of Tammy

Nov 5, 2025 • Buku Sarkar

David/Airbnb Saga

Nov 4, 2025 • Buku Sarkar

David and Margaret

Oct 30, 2025 • Buku Sarkar

Sea of Poppies: An interview with Amitav Ghosh

From the archives

Oct 23, 2025 • Buku Sarkar

Windows 2: To observe is to give life to the inconsequential

Good news for my loyal Indian readers.

Oct 20, 2025 • Buku Sarkar

Vignette: A Waiting

From the David/Airbnb Saga

Oct 3, 2025 • Buku Sarkar

A sneak peak of my just released story collection— Not Quite A Disaster After All

Sep 29, 2025 • Buku Sarkar

Words and Images

Sep 25, 2025 • Buku Sarkar

Ghost Letters: Annie Ernaux and Herve Guibert

A fictional conversation

Sep 24, 2025 • Buku Sarkar

Sitting on the fence? There’s a sliding scale subscription model for everyone’s budget

photography

Words and Images

Dec 24, 2025 • Buku Sarkar

Behind the world we live in

Words and Images

Dec 7, 2025 • Buku Sarkar

Words and Images

Nov 26, 2025 • Buku Sarkar

Kalidasa and the fine line between art and pornography

I was saving this post for a special time— maybe when I needed to scrounge for more paid subscribers.

Nov 21, 2025 • Buku Sarkar

The Woman Who Cleaves

Words and Images

Nov 20, 2025 • Buku Sarkar

What The Camera Cannot Keep

Words and Images from Women and Bodies

Nov 13, 2025 • Buku Sarkar

Stillness and the Photographed Body

Part of the words and images series: Women by Women

Nov 11, 2025 • Buku Sarkar

Words and Images

Nov 9, 2025 • Buku Sarkar

Seeing the Mask

Words and Images

Nov 8, 2025 • Buku Sarkar

Paris and its Dogs

Paris, and its Dogs

Nov 3, 2025 • Buku Sarkar

The other Woman

Words and images

Oct 31, 2025 • Buku Sarkar

Containment Diaries: The New York Years

I began to sit by the window most afternoons, without meaning to.

Oct 31, 2025 • Buku Sarkar

poetry

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A Conversation with George Szirtes

Many of you may have just recently heard of George Szirtes — he is one of the main translators of the Nobel Prize winner Laszlo Kraznakorkhai.

Dec 2, 2025 • Buku Sarkar and Hyun Woo Kim

Kalidasa and the fine line between art and pornography

I was saving this post for a special time— maybe when I needed to scrounge for more paid subscribers.

Nov 21, 2025 • Buku Sarkar

The Observer and the Observed and a few Observations

Nov 1, 2025 • Buku Sarkar

The other Woman

Words and images

Oct 31, 2025 • Buku Sarkar

A poem from my forthcoming book

This poem is part of my collection, My Dead Flowers, forthcoming in December (Harper Collins). I woke up today And you weren’t there I woke up yesterday…

Oct 27, 2025 • Buku Sarkar

Portraits of a Pianist

From my series Women and Bodies

Oct 24, 2025 • Buku Sarkar

The Other Woman: Portraits from my current WIP Women and Bodies

I dreamt of Emma Bovary.

Oct 21, 2025 • Buku Sarkar

Let the little stars

Oct 12, 2025 • Buku Sarkar

Le Cafe Parisienne

Words and Images

Oct 8, 2025 • Buku Sarkar

Living in the margins

Oct 5, 2025 • Buku Sarkar

Sep 30, 2025 • Buku Sarkar

Words and Images

Sep 26, 2025 • Buku Sarkar

workshop

Writing Workshops For July 2025

Jun 20, 2025 • Buku Sarkar

How To Write Character

Getting To Know Your Character

Dec 11, 2024 • Buku Sarkar

One on One workshopping/editing for Writers and Visual Artists

Hello, Interested in working with me on your essays, stories,novels or Artists Statements?

Dec 9, 2024 • Buku Sarkar

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