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Sunday, January 06, 2002
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A translator translated Translating Harivansh Rai Bachchan can be a complex task as his writings reflect the confluence of many influences. Fortunately for RUPERT SNELL, the task was made easy by the fact that often, Bachchan's Hindi was itself a kind of translation from En glish. A story of exoneration... More
Refusal to mournAgha Shahid Ali's poems express the exile's sense of loss — of a beloved location and a geography. Yet, he is someone who never did leave because his poems represent voices we deny everyday, says ARVIND KRISHNA MEHROTRA. More `Write to me... ' I REBEL against writing another elegy. Shahid, visited by a brain tumour, in a coma, has now expired, and I don't want to leaf through his books and search for the ones where he left a signature, a witness to his love. Agha Shahid Ali danced into ... More
Cashing in on crises ONE of the many questions being asked, with the strikes on Afghanistan in progress, is how many books this new crisis is going to spawn. It is more than apparent that this war, like others before it, will lead to the quick publication of a host ... More 
FIRST IMPRESSIONSTHERE is something unrealistic about this tale. But once you begin reading it, Summerland is difficult to put down. Not because of any brilliant writing that catches your fancy. But because of a strange twist in its tale. As we proceed we ... More 
A woman for all seasonsOVER a 1000 years before Virginia Woolf told us that a woman needed a room of her own to escape the afflictions brought upon them by men or Simone de Beauvoir that ``one was not born but becomes a woman'', Lady Murasaki Shikibu said as much in ... More
Credibility at stakeWhile judicial activism is to be welcomed, judgments ought to be practically enforceable. PRATEEK JALAN reviews Arun Shourie's book on the Judiciary-Executive interface. More Life in black and white In a career spanning 70 years, A.L. Syed became one of the important figures of 20th-century Indian photography. Working in black and white, his apparently neutral stance conceals a deeply compassionate vision of human existence, says HAVOVI ANKLESA RIA. More Novelist as critic Coetzee has won the Booker Prize twice. He is also an accomplished critic. And his readings and investigations go beyond mere aesthetic concerns to raise wider political issues, says M.S. NAGARAJAN. More WOMEN'S WRITING Freedom from love The issue of self-censorship in women's writing is incomplete without an attention to the compulsion to candour, says RAJI NARASIMHAN, analysing the latest book of poems by Sunita Jain. More 
Against the BombIn the midst of war-like postures emanating out of New Delhi and Islamabad, Out of the Nuclear Shadow is a must-read. It brings some of best writings of the intellectuals and activists of the subcontinent and is a contribution to the anti-nuclear s truggle, says KANTI BAJPAI. More
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