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Stray broodings 
On the see-sawSEAMUS HEANEY seems to have led a remarkably innocent adolescence. Whereas the Irish farming country I remember was a place, for most of its young people, to experiment with fags and drink and sex, Heaney's initiations are on an altogether higher ...
Not too old at 100On a day of great ceremonial in London honouring the late Queen Mother, CHRISTOPHER HURST surveys her long career. CLASSICS REVISITED 
Survival in love and warGEORGE ORWELL, who wrote extensively on Dickens and his novels, said that his characters were prototypes of their trade or class rather than individuals, representing social functions rather than particular human beings. Much the same could be ... FIRST IMPRESSIONS 
"Quick reviews"TOBY HOWK could have been any young boy, growing up in any ordinary neighbourhood with an extraordinary family. His is a family of accomplished women. An aunt who is a famous and rich textile designer; her mate who is a barrister and whose ... DIFFERENT REGISTERS 
Sustaining hopeON May 13, women's organisations in Mumbai came together as Women Against Violence in Gujarat and organised a daylong fast as a protest. The protest was organised at Hutatma Chowk, right in the middle of the commercial area so that the public can ... ENDPAPER 
Books about booksBooks have stories associated with them that have nothing to do with the stories inside them. Following their trail, Lawrence and Nancy Goldstone have written lively, stylish narratives.
Substance to shadowsThe two books illustrate divergent approaches to the presentation of fiction in translation, while documenting successive phases in Verma's writing, says RUPERT SNELL. WORLD CLASSICS 
Reinventing pleasureIn the tradition of reinvention and use of homegrown knowledge and traditions comes a new translation of Kamasutra by Wendy Doniger and Sudhir Kakar. A review by KALA KRISHNAN RAMESH, who also talks to Kakar. BIOGRAPHY 
He dreamed in HindustaniKipling never understood the economics driving colonialism. Nostalgia for India and admiration for the colonial administrator dispensing civilisation inspired much of his life and works, says ARVIND KRISHNA MEHROTRA. TRANSLATION 
Tides of changeThe Betrayal marks a significant change in middle-class attitudes to gender issues, says PREMA NANDAKUMAR. THEORY 
Grappling with the textTwo books on Roland Barthes, the man who is always departing from any single programme or ideology and for whom the pursuit of knowledge is part of a personal affirmation of values. A review by SHELLEY WALIA. SPORTS 
A feel for the game and languageBarring a few minor blemishes, it is a pleasure going through these essays of one of the most able chroniclers of cricket in this country, says SUBROTO SIRKAR. FICTION 
The swirl and the sprawlDangerlok, Eunice de Souza's debut prose work, brings relentless social critique to life in the seductively malevolent city of Mumbai, says ANJANA SHARMA. DIGITAL ART 
The real and the representativeDigital imaging allows a text to become endlessly transformative. In Vivan Sundaram's hands, it enables the restaging of the Sher-Gil family archives, with stunning insights and revelations, says SHOHINI GHOSH. ENVIRONMENT 
Catching rainRAINWATER HARVESTING (RWH) has obviously become an in-thing today, and Shree Padre, an energetic writer, has compiled the concepts of RWH between the covers of his slim book. The book of 119 pages and 23 chapters, with 15 ``Success Stories'', ... NOW IN ENGLISH 
Tale, teller, translatorTwo memoirs from two very different periods. Yet, issues — feminism, revolutions, revolutionaries and translation — strangely overlap in these texts, says BRINDA BOSE. ARCHITECTURE Mediated forms Ebba Koch's book highlights the flexibility of Mughal architecture, marked by reciprocal exchanges between regional building styles and those that evolved at the imperial centres, says MONICA JUNEJA. POETRY 
Master of ceremoniesROBERT FROST may not have been the quintessential boy-next-door American, suffering throughout his life from depression, loneliness and a turbulent family life; however, he is considered by many as the "original entrepreneur of poetry" and has ... SHORT FICTION 
Stories of the soilTHOUGH we are familiar with the literary styles and contemporary writing from the West and from Latin America through translations, our knowledge of the literatures of Asia is very limited. Therefore, an anthology of short stories from Singapore ... PERSONALITY 
A life richly livedHad Krishen Khanna not been an artist, he would have made a wonderful narrator. Hearing him in the undertow of the biographer's text, MADHU JAIN wants more. SPOTLIGHT 
A feast of poetryFOR a literary periodical to be launched into the world of letters with the poems of 145 living poets, most of them celebrities is no small achievement. When the poets are drawn from 40 countries across the world, it becomes a matter of truly ... HISTORY 
Soul of a cityToday, Lucknow stands vandalised in the name of city planning and little remains of its legendary elegance and sophistication. UMA MAHADEVAN-DASGUPTA reviews an omnibus edition which brings together three studies of the city. 
No magic hereSUGUNA IYER'S first novel, The Evening Gone, opens with a female narrator who is "memory, recorder, scripteur", and who has "a fancy notebook with different colours for different chapters." And she rummages through the relics of the past, ...
Let there be commerceAmerican Studies needs to redefine itself and get interdisciplinary, says INDRAN AMIRTHANAYAGAM. |
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