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The Photographer’s Crime (And the Writer’s Greater One)

Karl Ove Knausgaard once said that the photographer comes between the actual image—that they ruin it with their own injections.

Feb 17 • Buku Sarkar

The World Behind The World Behind The Veil That Masks The Third World

Words and Images

Feb 16 • Buku Sarkar

The Other Side of Minimalism

A while ago, I wrote an essay on the sparseness of writing for Republic of Letters and how silence allows sentences to be its most powerful.

Feb 14 • Buku Sarkar

Words and Images

Feb 10 • Buku Sarkar

Words and Images

Jan 28 • Buku Sarkar

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

KALIDASA AND THE FINE LINE BETWEEN ART AND PORNOGRAPHY

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

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Uncensored and unpublished images from my on going self portrait series Containment Diaries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

The Photographer’s Crime (And the Writer’s Greater One)

Karl Ove Knausgaard once said that the photographer comes between the actual image—that they ruin it with their own injections.

Feb 17 • Buku Sarkar

The World Behind The World Behind The Veil That Masks The Third World

Words and Images

Feb 16 • Buku Sarkar

Words and Images

Feb 10 • Buku Sarkar

Words and Images

Jan 28 • Buku Sarkar

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

KALIDASA AND THE FINE LINE BETWEEN ART AND PORNOGRAPHY

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

poetry

2:22:13

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

KALIDASA AND THE FINE LINE BETWEEN ART AND PORNOGRAPHY

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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