Essays by Dipika Mukherjee
A collection of essays exploring travel, ecology, literature, culture, identity, and the many places where personal experience meets the wider world.
Splendid Peacocks and Missing Shores in “The Golden Road”. Book Review. Chicago Review of Books, May 2025.
Singing of Covid through an Ancient Art Form: The Patuas of Bengal, World Literature Today, October 2022.
Why Albania is more than just its links with modern-day saint Mother Teresa, 30 July 2022
Tribute: Saluting the talent and bravery of slain Reuters photojournalist Danish Siddiqui. The Edge, July 26, 2021
Tears and Song. Pandemic Dispatches. World Literature Today. NOMINATED FOR THE PUSHCART PRIZE, 2021
To Keep My Brother Alive, I Will Fly 7,500 Miles. Los Angeles Review of Books, May 6, 2021
Terrorism Finds No Room Here. Newsweek. March 29, 2021,
After the coup: Will literature in Myanmar and the Irrawaddy Literary Festival be the same again? Scroll India, April 17 2021
Age of Elegance. The Edge, Singapore. February 10, 2021,
Hope and Mangroves. Orion Magazine, USA. Winter 2020, 10-11, December 2, 2020,
Sudah makan? Malaysian stories and building a sense of community through food, The Edge, Malaysia. Nov 11, 2020
A Journey to the Dalai Lama, Writer’s Postcard, The Edge, Malaysia. September 2019
Beacons of Inspiration: Cover Story, Option, The Edge, Malaysia. April 2019
Five Weeks in Rimbun Dahan. Cultural Cross Sections. World Literature Today, USA. July 2019
Science Teachers Nurture a Generation of Budding Ecologists on Redang Island, The Edge, Malaysia. July 22, 2019.
Why are many Bengali rhymes and songs for children, loved by generations, so misogynistic?. Scroll India, Sep 2018.
Do My Poems Cry with Me? World Literature Today, January 2015.
‘A Ministry Of Defense, But No Ministry Of Peace’: A Celebration of Myanmar Poetry at the Irrawaddy Literary Festival, May 2014.