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A sudden madness
Celebrated Hindi novelist KRISHNA SOBTI's Ai Ladki was published in 1991. Since then, the novel, about a young woman and her dying mother, has been dramatised and performed numerous times as a play, and is much translated, most recently into Swedish. Here she talks about the process of writing it and reflects on the creative process generally. More
Essay
Pounding Greene
They couldn't have been more different from one another. Yet, they forged a friendship that lasted a lifetime. Noted writer and novelist, RANGA RAO on the R.K. Narayan — Graham Greene relationship. More

Columns
CLASSICS REVISITED
The crucible of conscience
Crucible: A place or situation in which concentrated forces interact or influence change or development. ARTHUR MILLER has said somewhere that "there are really no characters in a play; there are relationship." Basically, there are three ... More

THE VIEW FROM KING STREET
Still centre of a turning world
Late last year, London hosted a loan exhibition of Vermeer, of whose paintings only 35 are known to survive. However, some of those are among the most enduring issues in Western art. More
DIFFERENT REGISTERS
Life and times of a kalaakar
VITHABAI BHAU MANG NARAYANGAONKAR died on January 15, in the morning hours, this New Year. She was 74. Vithabai Narayangaonkar was a Tamasha artiste famous for her songs, dance and plays. Everyone knew her in Maharashtra and the media had given ... More
First Impression
THIS story banks on the inevitable miracles that some lives seem to be destined to live with. Gudiya, left to live in a strange city with an ageing grandmother, whose only asset after being stripped of all her legendary wealth, is her terrific ... More

Book Review
In the company of ghosts
Colonialism and Renaissance made possible new connections between global history and mofussil, middle-class anonymity that was an enervating but ultimately dispiriting experience. Together they created a social fabric and a dreamscape entirely inimic al to that fabric. Jibanananda Das's stories articulate the costs of living with this dichotomy, says eminent novelist AMIT CHAUDHURI. More
FICTION
Inside the walled city
The Bride's Mirror, considered by many to be the first Urdu novel, is an insider's account of the reassuring stability of life in Old Delhi, says NARAYANI GUPTA. More
WOMEN'S STUDIES
Behind representations
Shadow Lives documents the lived experience of widowhood in counterpoint to the `knowledge' produced on the `subject' by male reformers. A review by INDIRA CHOWDHURY. More
CINEMA
Flavours of an age
GASTON ROBERGE once said of the Apu Trilogy that it broke away from a certain ideology and put forward another one instead — that of individuals who believe that changes are possible and have the will to bring them about. Suranjan Ganguly's ... More

Poetry
The politics of location
Home is where you are. Or, is it? INDRAN AMIRTHANAYAGAM writes on the angst and the search of migrant poets. More

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