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POETRY 
Letters to Gandhi(Note: Inspired by the digital photomontages of Vivan Sundaram's "Retake of Amrita". I imagine Amrita Sher-gil speaking after the Gujarat atrocities. The child Yunus I saw in Queresh relief camp in Ahmedabad in September 2002.) In ...
On RushdieRushdie is Whitman in a 21st-Century rush, giving voice to outsiders and hybrids, giving us a literature, to be wielded like a scimitar, poppy, temple flower, says INDRAN AMIRTHANAYAGAM.
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Out of the ovenThough God's Oven was her idea and she chose Moraes as co-author, it wasn't perceived quite that way by others. Things, however, have a way of getting equated, says SARAYU SRIVATSA. TRIBUTE Of secret odes to life and other things TGV's writing had the unstated lesson that one could love something as well as its opposite, with lucidity and reason, says KALA KRISHNAN RAMESH.
WORDSPEAK The words of war - II APROPOS war words, Saddam Hussein's description of Gulf War I as "the mother of all battles", quoted in last month's "Wordspeak" had many readers believe that he was perhaps the father of the expression. The ousted Iraqi president and his secular ... CLASSICS REVISITED 
Forewords and afterwordsBlessed be all metrical rules that forbid automatic responses, force us to have second thoughts, free us from the fetters of Self. W.H. Auden SOMEONE has said that once you have had a youthful love affair you both long ... BOOKWATCH The first list IN 1983, Granta published their first list of the Best Young British Novelists, in an educated guess about the literary future of a generation. They now do this once a decade. When Andrew Crumey, author of four novels, got a call from ... BOOKWATCH Those crazy climbers SPEAKING of authors young and attractive, Robert Macfarlane is both, but he is also that something more: a dazzling writer. To write on landscape and the mind is to boldly go where many have gone before, including dauntingly gifted historians ... 
Mother goddessGIVEN that martyrs are more palatable admired at a respectable distance than encountered up close, I opened Home Truths with trepidation, wondering if I would be able to take 200-odd pages of mothers battling to parent alone. Amazingly, ... Steady does it GLAMOUR and romance are not what we associate with the 1950s. History may well prove the decade to be as low and dishonest in its way as those earlier ten years famously written off by W.H. Auden in "September 1939". Yet even such negative ... DIFFRENT REGISTERS Quiet acts of courage THERE seems to be a great need here to make heroines out of women who have made even the slightest gesture of protest. A young girl goes with her parents and willingly buys everything from refrigerator to washing machines, all in two numbers ... 
First ImpressionsSHE was called Jewel of the World. In an astonishingly well-written account of her life and times, the eldest daughter of Shah Jahan and Mumtaz Mahal traces her roots, her growing up years, her siblings, their affairs and most of all the ... ENDPAPER 
The third presenceAPART from being the best contemporary love story I've read, Pico Iyer's Abandon belongs to the small, beautiful tradition of the mystical love story. Reading it, you are reminded of other stories about God amidst lovers. I thought of ...
Anxieties about democracyThe Future of Freedom is refreshingly unembarrassed in its acknowledgement that democracy, in order to deliver its promises, needs to be located in a complex amalgam of values and institutions, says PRATAP BHANU MEHTA. SCIENCE AND SOCIETY Making the hidden connections In The Hidden Connections Capra argues that life's basic construct is that of a network, not a machine, says S. RAMACHANDER. FICTION At home in India With this book, Esther David has done for the Bene Israel what Rohinton Mistry did for the Parsis, says RIVKA ISRAEL. 
From the blurb`BEGINNING in the early 1940s, renowned photographer Sunil Janah travelled extensively, for thirty years, to remote and hitherto almost inaccessible tribal villages. For days he lived with these people and developed a closeness and friendship ... SPORT 
Our `boys'WHEN Laxmibai Gijhe first bowled to her two and a half-year-old nephew, little did she know that 14 years later, he would be facing up to some of the fastest bowlers in the world, right across the border. A curly-haired dynamo, named for one of ... CHILDREN'S LITERATURE Mythology in modern idiom ONE of the lingering memories of childhood is listening to stories from parents and grandparents. Besides being a way of engaging the attention of children and entertaining them, story telling has been a vibrant cultural tradition down the ages, ... 
Hating AmericaWhile segregating American foreign policy from the people, Sardar and Davies illustrate why some nations actually have reasons to hate the former, says TABISH KHAIR. One heck of a book Batting for the Empire is so well researched that it damns Ranji almost beyond redemption, says KEKI N. DARUWALLA. PROSE A bibliomaniac's passion THIS collection of essays showcases the range and enthusiasms of the late T.G. Vaidyanathan. Lovingly edited by two former students, who also contribute a long introduction that doubles as a tribute, there is besides, a foreword by well known ... TRANSLATION 
The loneliest poetREADING the poetry of Jibanananda Das is like stumbling upon a labyrinth of mind similar to the kind one imagines Camus's "absurd" man toils through. His poems have all the ingredients of the modern man's anguish: pain, despair, yearning, set ...
PUBLISHING Moving on... Twenty years ago, Kali for Women demonstrated that publishing on important issues could be economically viable too. Today, the founders have decided to separate. SUCHITRA BEHAL reports. |
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