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From
September 21, 2005 to
October 04, 2005
The
Perfect Guru
This
visually splendid book gives the
reader a new lens with which to view
pichhvais.
Fine
Fusion Of Forms
The
Accidental boldly steps outside its
own formal boundaries and blends
different modes of expressions.
Home
And The World
On
an impulse, I decided to read Amitava
Kumar's Bombay, London, New York
again. I read it in a hurry when it
first came out in 2002, noting with
pleasure that it was, among many other
things, the first really good book on
reading written by an Indian.
Brutal
Landscape
Jayanta
Mahapatra on how he needs to find the
little lights amidst desolation to
keep going. Physics taught me that
time held you captive, but it also
made you free.
On
Strangeness In Indian Writing
For
20 long years, influenced by Said and
post-colonial theory, the aesthetics
of estrangement has been confused with
the politics of representation. It is
time to restore the stranger's
innocence.
Poems
Of Remarkable Resonance
Kolatkar
was a genuine major talent, feels
PRABHAKAR ACHARYA.
Textbook
Of Laughter And Forgetting
Literature
can define the way we perceive and
express our worlds. Why then is there
no wider debate on the kind of English
textbooks that are prescribed, asks
AMITAVA KUMAR. Literature can define
the way we perceive and express our
worlds.
Narratives
That Linger
A
profile of the Tamil writer R.
Chudamani by PADMA NARAYANAN and PREMA
SEETHARAM.
In
Love With The Many Moods Of The
Monsoon
The
monsoon is a special source of
inspiration for Alexander Frater who
has followed its course in
India.
To
Have And To Hold
It
is amazing that what Jayakanthan wrote
40 years ago holds good even in the
new millennium.
First
Impressions
Sadak
Chhaap, Meher Pestonji, Penguin, Rs.
250.
Handmaiden
Of The Government
Doordarshan
Days, Bhaskar Ghose, Viking, Rs.
395
The
'Milk Man' Tells His Story
I
Too Had a Dream, Verghese Kurien as
told to Gouri Salvi, Lotus, Rs.
395.
Inside
Out
A
Hack's Progress, Phillip Knightley,
Lotus, Rs. 295.
The
Return Of Salman Rushdie
After
a lean phase which, incidentally,
included The Satanic Verses, Rushdie
has regained his touch, and with some
style. Shalimar is also one of his
most accessible novels, though, in an
age of instant gratification, it still
seems unfashionably.
The
Other Great War
In
After Kurukshetra, Mahasweta Devi
speaks once again of women from a
woman's point of view.
A
Feminist Manifesto
Lyndall
Gordon attempts to see in Mary
Wollstonecraft's contrariety, a
positive desire to inculcate and
discard, to test and shape her growing
genius.
Between
Cultures
Aslam
is courageous for recording his
impressions of an insular world.
New
Narratives
A
compact collection, Curtains
celebrates the Indian woman and `herstories'.
The
Writings Of Another Literary Family
Eunice
de Souza's recent book, The
Satthianadhan Family Album, is an
interesting attempt to understand the
life of early Tamil Christians.
Mastering
The Mistress
Anita
Nair says she donned in spirit the
colours of a Kathakali artiste to
write her novel.
Travel
On The Edge
The
book reveals exciting new ways to
experience the world in a manner that
entertains as well as educates.
Revolutionising
The Path Of Information
For
the first time after the Arab news
channel Al Jazeera broke on the
scene— information is flowing from
East to West, rather than the other
way around.
Progressing
From A Whisper To A Scream
JOANNA
BRISCOE is glad that Nick Hornby’s
ending transcends the beginning of his
high-concept novel.
A
Mix Of Feminism
The
book reflects contemporary social
reality through the medium of a short
story and a novella.
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