From ULR
Issue 11 – Appetite
Note to Readers by Kabir Deb
Hunger, refracted through literary and visual text, reveals its profound political and relational stakes, challenging definitions of agency, sustenance, and societal margins.
My residence on earth
Wasn’t all that bad: I don’t mind
Coming back if need be.
-K. Satchidanandan, ‘Instructions to the Undertaker’
Talking with people who see food through the lens of a camera or literature gives appetite a whole new dimension: it becomes political, revolutionary and comforting. In these Interviews we explore the hunger at the centre and the edges of society, such hungers that provoke our conscience. Food is a part of our daily life more than anything else, something we consume through all our senses and consciousness. After all, food, as they say, is more a relationship than an object.
Our hearts beat within our ribcages with our hungers, passions and political beliefs; in this issue we lead our readers to feast on their own, and the writers’. Allow the seduction of such cogent, erudite, and engaging conversations on appetite in the Interviews section so you understand the truths of your own hungers, and those of others.
Best wishes,
Kabir Deb
Kabir Deb
Kabir Deb is an author/ poet based in Karimganj, Assam. He works in Punjab National Bank and has completed his Masters in Life Sciences from Assam University and is presently pursuing his MCW from Oxford University, London. He is the recipient of Social Journalism Award, 2017; Reuel International Award for Best Upcoming poet, 2019; and Nissim International Award, 2021 for Excellence in Literature for his book ‘Irrfan: His Life, Philosophy And Shades’. He runs a mental health library named ‘The Pandora’s box to a Society called Happiness’ in Barak Valley. He reviews books, many of which have been published in magazines like Outlook, Usawa Literary Review, The Financial Express, Cafe Dissensus, Sahitya Akademi etc