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The Booker brouhahaIs there more to the Man Booker Prize than mere media hype? A lot, feels RENUKA RAJARATNAM, celebrating the Prize's embrace of post-modern and contemporary realities. Not for boys IT is a pleasure merely to handle a book like this, 647 quarto pages, weighing in at 1.5 kilos, a labour of love that will bring Rip Cohen no vast profits or literary prizes nor (all too probably) academic advancement, but will remain an ... SHORT STORY Scourge HEART ablaze and head blowing clouds of smoke, the mail train thundered into the platform and ground to a halt. It had a five-minute stop at this station, time for breakfast. The passengers were arranging their food and refreshments. A small ...
A generation without choicesHaving the doors open now to the world outside following the new economic policies and liberalisation, young writers in China are now experiencing a new atmosphere of expressional freedom, forbidden to them for decades since the Cultural ...
IN CONVERSATION 
Portrait of a ladyZEHRA NIGAH is a much loved and highly respected poet in Pakistan. She is also a scriptwriter of several popular television serials and films, including the award-winning Hindi film `Pinjar'. In Delhi recently in ...
Fall of a TitanSHIV K. KUMAR recalls his many associations with Mulk Raj Anand and notes that his passing away has created a vacuum in contemporary Indian English writing. Poet of the people Neruda's most endearing quality was his respect for poetry as an occupation, writes TISHANI DOSHI. PROFILE Sarala Devi: A centenary tribute Sarala Devi (1904 - 1986) was the first Oriya freedom fighter who would be remembered as the most outstanding literary feminist who contributed to the making of modern Orissa. Her legacy remains neglected today, even in her centenary year, says SACHIDANANDA MOHANTY.
CLASSICS REVISITED 
Agnon's angstAngst: Variously translated as anxiety, anguish, dread. First used by Soren Kierkegaard in The Concept of Anxiety (1844) where he describes the terrifying reality of the state of splitness, indecisiveness and responsibility in front of ... DIFFERENT REGISTERS 
A life dedicated to danceIN the early morning hours of Sunday, September 19, the renowned Kathak dancer, Damayanti Joshi, breathed her last. Nearly a year before that, she had had a stroke. When I got to know about it I went to visit her along with Neela Bhagwat, the ... 
First ImpressionsINDIA means many things to many people. There is no one way to describe this country. Suketu Mehta's "Mumbai" is a soul-stirring piece on the city of his childhood dreams. Mehta's rediscovery years later leads one into the chaos that Bomaby ... ENDPAPER 
Reading roomsLATELY, I have been mourning the lack of public libraries in our country. The State and city central libraries we once had have long fallen into disrepair — books unreturned, stolen or vandalised. Who is to blame, really? Were we ... WORDSPEAK A belated October surprise THIS "Wordspeak" was meant to be about some of the most beautiful words in German and other languages. But the results of a contest sponsored by the German Language Council were not out before the deadline for e-mailing the text for the column. ... 
BookwatchWHEN the University of Sheffield lecturer in International History, Benjamin Zachariah, set out to write the historical biography of India's first Prime Minister, Nehru-bashing was a favourite past-time among India's ruling class. But, by the ...
URBANSCAPE Kala-khatta for the soul `Maximum City is a seething, rumbling, deeply compassionate break-dance of a book.' NOVEL Campus blues `The Cambridge Curry Club gives you a glimpse of a Cambridge that exists beyond scholars and celestial choirs.' TRANSLATION Beyond the literal `One facet that repeatedly surfaces in this selection is the revolutionary undertones that bring out the poet's involved negotiation with his times.' CRITICISM 
A three-cornered quarrel`Seligman's pleasure and excitement in this whole project — placing Sontag and Kael next to each other as perfect foils in their approaches, their purposes and their personalities — is evident on every page, every line.' Poetry and the Northeast: Foraging for a destiny 'Myth, landscape and nature, the particular predicament of people here and tribal folklore provide the core subject matter.' TRANSLATION A masterpiece re-launched The novel is a breathtaking narrative of crumbling orthodoxy and the creeping in of modernity. SHORT FICTION There is a story here `P. Chandy Mathew and Annie Chandy Mathew have decided to tell the tales that have been rattling around inside their heads all their lives... ' ESSAYS Collected thoughts `Byline is a collection of pieces written over the last few years, encompassing travel, politics and history, sidelines, memories and personal notes.' |
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