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Online edition of India's National Newspaper Sunday, May 04, 2008 |
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New worlds Translation offers a multiplicity of complex worlds, all waiting to be interpreted, understood and absorbed.
PERSONALITY True to the original These stories mirror the society of emerging India early in the last century.
FANTASY Prescient and enthralling Fifty-four years after its publication, Ray Bradbury’s classic dystopian novel transcends the framework within which it was placed.
IN CONVERSATION 
Naipaul, as he isThe World is What it is portrays Naipaul in all his complexity but never judges him, says his biographer Patrick French. Excerpts from an interview…
CLASSICS REVISITED A climate of thought 
BookwatchForeign Correspondent: Fifty Years of Reporting South Asia, edited by John Elliott, Bernard Imhasly, Simon Denyer, Penguin, p.424, Rs. 695.The editors of Foreign Correspondent: Fifty Years of Reporting South Asia ... SECOND THOUGHTS Chronicling the hills Dehra Dun may have changed but the memories of an unhurried time in the hills will never fade. ENDPAPER All in a name What actually gives power and resonance to a book title? WORDSPEAK She did not die in vain Lady Mondegreen lives on … in board games, music and every day conversation. 
First ImpressionWe have to thank Chetan Bhagat for popularising a genre of writing that most Indian book editors would dump into without skipping a beat. After chick lit and college sagas comes Tanushree Podder’s Boots Belts Berets ...
FICTION Magical world of mirrors Rushdie’s latest novel is a rich re-imagining of history with scarcely a trace of scholarly heaviness. Beyond belief The biography leaves us confronting the enormous contradiction: how could a man so gifted also be so depraved? CULTURAL STUDIES Narratives of the nation These volumes explore the ways in which nations are imagined, in all their bewildering complexities and contradictions. VERSE Triumph over death An exploration of a poet’s inner universe. ESSAYS Charting new lands Literary discourse moves into new territory with this book. HUMOUR Echoes of Wodehouse Pleasant but seems like pale imitations. TEXTILES Rare visual treat While the text has its drawbacks, the photographs uplift the book. TRANSLATION Trenchant but inspiring An expose of the relationship between Indians and British, it is vintage Qurratulain Hyder. The randomness of life Kandasamy’s concerns like the inequities of our times and deprivation of those at the edge of society are reflected in this story FICTION The unlikely romantic Hilarious and subversive, Diaz’s book is a commentary on the complexities and contradictions of transcultural conflicts. |
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