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Letters from the palaceMARKING the birth centenary of "Kumudini", we present a translation of imaginary letters from Sita Devi to her mother and, from Hidimbi's grandmother to her grand daughter. These letters are part of a larger collection titled Antappura ...
Everywhere man IN Victorian surveys of contemporary fiction, Edward Bulwer Lytton was often grouped in a triumvirate with Dickens, who admired him, and Thackeray, who reviled him. Later readers have inclined towards neglect, or to Thackeray's view of him as a ... PROFILE The brighter side of life PADMA NARAYANAN and PREMA SEETHARAM write about the Tamil writer Anuthama, who believed in and wrote about ethical values without pontificating on them.
IN CONVERSATION Half a century of stories SUBASH JEYAN profiles D. Jayakanthan, recently awarded the Jnanpith Award for 2002.
CLASSICS REVISITED 
All about moneyFOR the French, the novel is never anything except a philosophy expressed in images. And in a good novel the philosophy disappears into the images. If the English have little taste for ideas disguised as literature, the French have even less for ... 
Bookwatch"And so the autobiographer does his work because he thinks that, at the cost of some unpleasantness to himself, he may throw light on some of the typical problems that are vexing the souls of his contemporaries... " This is how Annie Besant ... DIFFERENT REGISTERS 
`When I close my eyes... 'ON a Sunday in March, a great guru in Bharatanatyam passed away quietly. He was 94. U.S. Krishna Rao was a guru who, along with his wife Chandrabaga Devi, had changed the lives of many, including mine. As a young 13-year-old, my mother had ... 
First ImpressionsANTONIA GALLO'S worst nightmare begins on Christmas eve, when she discovers samples of a highly secretive drug missing from the laboratory where she was in charge of security. Even as a distraught and tired Gallo works round-the-clock to find the ... ENDPAPER 
The bookshelfFOR some time now I have been preoccupied with staring at my bookshelf. Not the books on the bookshelf but the bookshelf itself. I am not happy with the way it looks. The depth of each shelf is too deep — they look like pigeonholes. ... WORDSPEAK A civil question MEDIA all around the world, including The Hindu, recently carried a news item about Prince Charles marrying Camilla Parker-Bowles in a civil ceremony. The term more familiar to most Indians for a marriage solemnised by a civil or ...
The unknown Wodehouse`It is a scholarly piece of research into the life of one of the kindest, gentlest and simplest geniuses to adorn the literary scene of the last century... ' POETRY Never look back `This is a fine guide book and an informative introduction to American poetry.' FICTION A grand double for Small Island `Levy's book is bearable and enjoyable for its light touch on weighty themes.' FICITION 
Glimpses of eternity`Despite its noble and even edifying intentions, however, ... it turns out to possess two of the most endearing features of a novel, an erotic interest and comic irreverence.' FROM THE BLURB 
Against Empire`ZILLAH EISENSTEIN urges a relook at the fundamental categories through which we perceive our world — historical, political, epistemological, even moral. The sweep of her concern ranges across the world, challenging the Bush ... TRANSLATION Questions of belonging `My Temples, Too is a powerful story, told in an idiom that is distinctively Hyder's.' TRANSLATION Critical insider `Perumal Murugan's book may be seen as a response to the genre of Dalit literature, a literature of protest, resistance and subversion.' ESSAYS Introducing Gandhi `Gandhi needs to be interpreted periodically in the light of newly emerging concerns and the attending questions they raise.' HISTORY Feasting on facts and feni `Malgonkar and Miranda establish an essential truth. That Goa is more than a geographical entity; it is a quintessential state of mind.' FICTION Echoes of Nabokov `If you're the kind who flinches from reading Femina in dentist's clinics, Tejpal's book is not for you.' SEXUAL STUDIES Ending the conspiracy of silence `We need to challenge received assumptions, to challenge the idea that sex is inherently dangerous and negative.' POPULAR CINEMA Mindscapes of a lyricist `Those of us who were raised on a steady diet of Hindi film songs aired by Vividh Bharti ... will find much meat in this book.' CONTEMPORARY HISTORY Patriotism and dissent `Zinn takes account of all the betrayals by the U.S. government which had no qualms in throwing to the wind mankind's hope for peace.' |
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