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Between memory and desire
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One-book writersTHEY wrote one great book and were never heard from again. Or, nothing they ever wrote later counted. Harper Lee comes to mind straightway. Why did she never write anything after To Kill A Mockingbird? Was she afraid it would never be as ...
On the roadSASHA DUGDALE is already well known as a translator of Russian drama and poetry. Notebook, her first collection of poems, is preoccupied with the role of the observer, both as a privilege and a plight, and draws naturally on Russian ... ISSUES English in the wake of NAAC There is a `crisis' in English departments all over the country, following the National Assessment and Accreditation Council's directive to frame courses that cater to contemporary (corporate?) needs. HIMANSU S. MOHAPATRA looks at the possible ways ahead in this scenario.
Simply, a poet(My pen is the trust of my people/ My pen is the court of my conscience/ That is what makes me write with ardour and alacrity/And gives my writing the spring of a bow and the keenness of an arrow.) Romantic and visionary, a poet of ... 
Not just social realism...Denmark-based TABISH KHAIR, whose novel The Bus Stopped was recently published, talks to AMULYA GOPALAKRISHNAN about representation, issues of belonging and other considerations that went into the ...
CLASSICS REVISITED 
Seasons in hellOne can imagine everything, predict everything, save how low one can sink. E.M. Cioran: The Trouble With Being Born IT is impossible to name a book that had a greater effect on political and moral consciousness ... THE VIEW FROM KING STREET Surviving by mistake CHRISTOPHER HURST cannot forget something he saw on holiday last year. DIFFERENT REGISTERS 
Realities in women's livesNORMALLY, women's writings are expected to contain what is considered a fixed and "essentially female nature". There is a constant effort to locate an essentially female experience and see it as a universal experience. The fact is that while ... 
First ImpressionsTHIS could be the ultimate terror plot. A shadow organisation built up over the years to restore "order" to the world as governments see fit, is suddenly the target of assassin-like attacks. When Carter, a veteran with Spiral, quits, he suddenly ... WORDSPEAK Words in pictures I ONCE walked into a women's toilet because the sign next to the entrance was small and showed a pictogram that, unless looked carefully at and analysed, appeared to be for men's toilet. The sole woman inside washing hands at the sink politely ...
CONTEMPORARY PAKISTANI WRITING 
View from the other side`In the season of burgeoning interest in all things Pakistani, it is perhaps inevitable that we in India should look towards writing from Pakistan to see this hitherto intractable and irascible neighbour in shades other than grey.' SHORT FICTION Retake on history `In diverse voices, the stories in this collection do grapple with the tragedies of Partition and history, but they also move beyond nationalism ...' LETTERS 
A life on the edge`It is Murshid's endeavour to present to us a reliable, fuller, and more accurate version of Michael Madhusudan Dutt's letters in a manner accessible to the non-Bengali reader.' CONTEMPORARY SOCIETY Squaring India's circles `Varma's larger generalisations will raise hackles ... and some of his empirical examples do not quite work.' FICTION When lives intersect `Tabish Khair manages to carry off his tale, or rather tales, with something close to aplomb.' 
Look back and laugh`The past can be viewed as a source to draw wisdom from, whereas grieving and brooding over it is of very little use. Better have a laugh about it, is the suggestion of Capt. Malhotra.' NARRATIVE 
Love, and all that`Boman Desai is an Indian expatriate writer, and with that territory comes certain predictability in terms of storytelling style and choice of themes — that of nostalgia, of a world lost or altered, the crucial element of memory and the jet-set concept of transnationalism.' TRANSLATION The power of Premchand `Premchand shines through not only with his irresistible story-telling magic but also with his abiding contemporary relevance.' MEMOIRS 
The right to imagination`Reading Lolita does not set out neat parallels between reality and fiction. It is autobiographical, teeming with characters we may or may not meet again... ' POETRY Squatter-speak `For Dharker, there is no Faustian struggle with the devil. He walks in and takes up residence: squats.' SOCIETY 
The modernist's gazeTHIS translation of the Marathi 1889 travelogue is more than an Indian feminist's critique of American life, inclusive of the socio-cultural-historic trends, and showcases to the modern reader, not only in India, but in America as well, the ... NOVEL 
Recognise yourself?`The novel itself is a symbolic representation of a consumerist society where individuality is lost and where the body, mind and self are reduced to one homogenous mass.' HUMOUR Incisive inking `His inking seems to punctuate space deftly and his brush strokes are delightful.' GENDER STUDIES Stranger in the garden `This is different from the usual quantitative studies which produce massive data, reduced to tables, charts and other forms of representation.' |
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