On Sunday 1 March 2026, the Kolkata International Foundation for Arts, Literature and Culture (KIFALC)-Yapanchitra Festival 2026, organised a panel discussion on the theme "The Writing is on the Wall: Revisit, Rediscover, Re-Imagine" at Sisir Mancha. Here is the recording of the 13-minute-long speech delivered by Paranjoy Guha Thakurta that was mainly in English with a few sentences in Bengali.