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TRIBUTE: O.V. VIJAYAN -- 1930-2005
PUBLISHING The essence of blogging The blog is the Web's potential realised, feels KIRAN JONNALAGADDA
IN THE NEWS Exploring silence Kannada has had a rich tradition of little magazines. The latest, Deshakaala, may just become the catalyst for new literary movements, says S. DIWAKAR
INTERVIEW Beauty in our midst John Lane feels consumerist societies are losing their links to a rich, mythological cosmos.
PERSPECTIVE My name is Pamuk Like his city and his country, Pamuk's works touch upon the dialectics of a double heritage. TRIBUTE Restless poet B.C. Ramachandra Sharma's poetry was path-breaking. PROFILE Voice of an era C.D. Narasimhaiah influenced the way a whole generation of students read, responded and critiqued English texts. DALIT LITERATURE Celebrating protest Namdeo Dhasal was a pioneering poet, who inspired an entirely different literary imagination.
BOOKWATCH 
Victim of prejudiceONE of the first things that Iftikar Gilani — the Delhi bureau chief of the Jammu-based daily, Kashmir Times — did after his release from prison was pen his experience of being hauled up by the authorities in the middle of the ... CLASSICS REVISITED 
Guy next doorDangling Man, Saul Bellow, first published 1944, Penguin paperback, £4.99. It is with private disorder and public bewilderment that we try to live. We stand open to all anxieties. The decline and fall of everything is our daily ... DIFFERENT REGISTERS 
Songs of a mysticVIOLENCE against women has to be dealt with in many different ways by individuals and groups. Some women's groups have been regularly organising workshops and campaigns on this issue so that the issue and its urgency is not forgotten. Akshara ... 
First ImpressionsWHEN Paul Tomm, a fresher on the staff of a newspaper in a small town, is sent to investigate the death of a Russian professor, little does he realise the consequences of hisqueries. Asked to write an obituary for the deceased, Tomm finds ... ENDPAPER 
The unlived lifeTHE book I return to again and again is Isak Dinessen's Babette's Feast. Dinessen wrote this long short story in English when she was 65 years old. Having read it probably nine times over the years, I am as broken up by it as I was the ... WORDSPEAK Five-star confusion IN reply to my ignorance about the meaning of "five-star activists" in last month's "Wordspeak", readers responded in a variety of ways: These are the rantings of people from the upper middle class, who hold conventions on human rights, ...
BIOGRAPHY Versatile pioneer Through this biography Sita Anantha Raman reclaims a humanist space for Madhaviah, says SELINE AUGUSTINE LANGUAGE Who needs Phoenician? "I can't think of a volume that has better interpreted the linguistic history of Eurasia, from Sumerian onwards, or of the entire world in the post-Columbian era." GENDER STUDIES Untold stories Coming out of Partition is a significant addition to the lean corpus of analytical studies on the Partition vis-à-vis the eastern border. POETRY The fleeting moment Amit Chaudhuri, in his poetry and fiction, celebrates the ordinary. ART In search of the self This catalogue lends us insights into an unusual life. FICTION Buddha in a new light The Buddha emerges a more rounded figure in this reinterpretation, says R. KRITHIKA SHORT FICTION Encouraging new talent The stories in the collection is a good indication of the great potential out there, writes NIMI KURIAN |
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