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Sunday, March 04, 2007
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IN FIRST PERSON
TRANSLATION A creative, not an academic exercise A look at the act of translation and what it involves. TRIBUTE A master storyteller Kahnucharan Mohanty's stories evoked something personal in each reader. EVENT Reading the Indian novel A comment on a recently held International Conference in Delhi.
Eyecatchers From the blurb How To Read A Poem; Terry Eagleton, Blackwell Publishing, Rs. 395.
IN CONVERSATION 
Living with a colonial burdenIra Pande on her mother Shivani who was instinctively writing about gender issues much before they became self-conscious territories, and the plight of bhasha writers today.
CLASSICS REVISITED Dostoevsky's useful idiots The Idiot, Fyodor Dostoevsky, translated by David Magarshack, Penguin, 1955 edition. SECOND THOUGHTS Poet of the hopeless Chekhov was a bridge between the structured realism of Maupassant and the psychological modernism of Joyce. 
First ImpressionAFTER the incredible success of The Da Vinci Code, it seems almost every church in Europe has dark mystical secrets that need telling. If The Da Vinci Code was the original in its genre, then books like The Omega Scroll are ... ENDPAPER India in the future An ambitious science fiction thriller set in a futuristic India that is fabulously rewarding. WORDSPEAK Of pagans and heathens English has an inordinately large number of dislogistic terms for people generally thought to be simple and natural.
GRAPHIC NOVEL Multi-tasking and mixed media Sarnath Banerjee's narration may be abstract but his drawings are quite beautiful. FICTION Distant memories This is an unusually poignant, vivid and well-crafted work. Impossibly good Who is this author, who could write such a fluid and heartbreaking book? TRENDS Year of biographies 2006 was boom time for biographies in the U.S. FICTION Games, big and small A romance set against the backdrop of the British debacle in Afghanistan. NATURE A bird's-eye view A sensible wide-angle look at India's bewildering bird life. Life's like that only With this translation, Parashuram reaches out to readers beyond Bengal's shores. Complex web of class, caste, gender The story staggers under sociological debates and reformist zeal. AUTOBIOGRAPHY Seamless narrative A reliable and honest guide to Rabindranath's life in his own words as could ever be attempted. CINEMA Explosive eye candy A Bollywood spectacle in a book.
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