Larger constellations burning, mellow moons and happy skies, / Breadths of tropic shade and palms in cluster, knots of Paradise.

Literary Bengali of prose, during the greater part of the 19th century, was thus a doubly artificial language; and, with its forms belonging to Middle Bengali, and its vocabulary highly Sanskritised, it could only be compared to a 'Modern English' with a Chaucerian grammar and a super-Johnsonian vocabulary, if such a thing could be conceived.

[…] this literary/arts center presents Manifesto Night, with readings by such notable playwrights, poets, teachers, and blacktresses as John Baldessari, Max Benevidez, Pam Gregg, Sue Spaid, David Schweizer, and Ms. Vaginal Creme Davis.

We gratefully acknowledge the contributors whose courage and commitment to a multicultural education not only bring hope and possibility to the multicultural terrain but continue to stretch the envelope of praxis in that terrain.