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About Buku Sarkar

Buku is a writer and photographer who has lived between Calcutta and New York. Her fiction has appeared in N+1 and Apt, her essays and articles in Huffington Post, Mint Lounge, and Threepenny Review, and her photographs in various publications including the New York Times. You can see more of her bukusarkar.com and on Instagram @bukusarkar.

Lexington Avenue

Buku Sarkar

Lexington Avenue by Jeffrey Zeldman

The span of Lexington Avenue between 25th and 29th streets is flanked on either side by Bangladeshi, Pakistani and Indian restaurants; by buffets of masala chicken and palak, floating in layers of … [Read more...]

Scylla

Buku Sarkar

Scylla - Buku Sarkar essay

Central Park in spring was magical. Leaves began to reappear on bare trees; the sun rose earlier—soft and shy—just waking up after winter, turning everything into a warm amber. It all looked new; even … [Read more...]

Calcutta: Photographs by Buku Sarkar

Buku Sarkar

Calcutta: Photography by Buku Sarkar

After seventeen years away, I've done something most Indians of my generation don't do---return back home. When people ask me where I'm from, I always stumble. I say, I was born in Calcutta but I grew … [Read more...]

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Established in 2000 and edited by Denise Enck, Empty Mirror is an online literary magazine that publishes new work each Friday.

Each week EM features several poems each by one or two poets; reviews; critical essays; visual art; and personal essays.

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