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Of human bondage
Manaus memoriesMEMORY is a well-established theme in contemporary Latin American fiction, and perhaps the primary obsession of its finest exponents. From Rayuela by Julio Cortázar, to One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez, to ...
No easy answers GOWRI RAMNARAYAN interviews the `inaccessible' bilingual poet, Arun Kolatkar.
PROFILE The politics of poetry `Neruda himself thought that those who wanted to separate his political poetry from the rest were enemies of poetry.'
Farewell from King Street CHRISTOPHER HURST takes his leave. CLASSICS REVISITED 
The tireless messengerGRAHAM GREENE has said somewhere that every country gets accustomed to its own restrictions as part of its own violence. But this "survival kit" leads to a tradition of double-talk as in Poland and Hungary and the former states of the Soviet ... 
BookwatchA PRODUCT of the East and the West, Kishore Mahbubani — born as a British subject into a Hindu Indian immigrant family in Singapore — may be of the view that Samuel Huntington's vision of a "clash of civilisations" ought to be taken ... 
First ImpressionsTHE first thing that catches your eye is the title. Its difference insists that you at least open it and flip through a few pages. It is a strange detective book, quite unlike any in its genre. And it is no ordinary detective you are dealing ... ENDPAPER 
Just browsingTHE fine art of browsing. You didn't think all it took was hanging around in a bookshop with time to kill, did you? You have to look at each book carefully — not casually — internalise the contents, then stow it away in your mind for ... WORDSPEAK Going to the polls IT is the beginning of September, and for the next two months our North American media, perhaps the world, will be preoccupied with the presidential elections in the United States. Which means that we would be hearing and reading a slew of words ...
Middle-class minutiae `Moving on moves us in unexpected ways'. ART Visual narrative insights `In an era of less egocentric artists than our own, patronised by the courts, these incredible paintings sing narratives of their times to us.' POETRY 
The bhakti poet of our times`Kolatkar's imagery has always astonished. Swift, abrupt details flash in and out. Language and form are honed — at times too relentlessly — to terse essentials.' FOOD TALK 
Better when rude`To make things even more agreeable, Sanghvi has carefully sieved and sifted his pieces so that like a buffet you can decide whether you want to eat Indian, or go truffle hunting, or wallow in a great sweet and sticky pudding of childhood nostalgia.' SCIENCE FICTION Another tomorrow `There is a constant sense of movement, physical as well as psychological, ensuring the reader's attention.' PROSE Not a genuine quest `I think that the personal project he undertakes is fundamentally inauthentic.' MEMOIRS 
Coming home`You cannot help but admire Uma, who decided to live life on her own terms and reject all that was seen as `the right thing' for girls of her education and background to do, back in the 1970s.' CONSERVATION The elephant in India `Stephen Alter combines the writing skill he has honed as a novelist with his penchant for the outdoors and research.' WELLBEING Neuron nirvana `Abraham's quest is for the spiritual neuron, and he very elegantly traces this function to the neurons in the prefrontal lobes of the brain.' GENDER STUDIES 
A wake-up call`Based on the first ever national survey of 10,000 Muslim and Hindu women in India, Unequal Citizens covers issues like education, work, socio-economic status, marriage decision-making powers, mobility, domestic violence and political participation of Muslim women.'
VIEWPOINT Lifestyle English There is a need to move away from `survival' as the focus of learning in communicative English. We need to stitch together a more poetic register, says HIMANSU S. MOHAPATRA.
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