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Sunday, April 01, 2007
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EXPRESSIONS 
Poetry of survivalTaken as a whole, contemporary Eastern European poetry provides just the right models of poetry turning into an antithesis of power and authoritarianism.
PROFILE "The sky is not the limit" Oriya author Pratibha Ray is essentially a humanist, a rebel against the unreasonable.
CLASSICS REVISITED 
The stubborn nature of truthUncle Tom's Cabin, or, Life Among the Lowly, Harriet Beecher Stowe, first published 1852, reprinted in several different editions. The Penguin edition, price £4.99, is perhaps the most user-friendly. ABRAHAM LINCOLN once ... 
BookwatchMahatma Gandhi: A Historical Biography, Bidyut Chakrabarty, Roli Books, Rs. 350. SO much has been written about Mahatma Gandhi that the task is daunting for any new venture. More so for individuals with strong academic ... 
First ImpressionWHEN four women get together to make life work, despite the odds, there is bound to be some fire. So it is with Chhobi, the narrator; Sonali, her beautiful but wilful younger sister; their mother, Ma; and their incredible grandmother, Dida. This ... SECOND THOUGHTS Delhi, yesterday Vignettes of a capital city from more than a century and a quarter ago. ENDPAPER Passion for Shakespeare A guide to the scholarly inferno that rages around the Bard's works. WORDSPEAK Feringhees and kafirs A look at hostile or contemptuous terms that people of other religious persuasions had for Christians and, by extension, for white people.
FICTION Philosophical dialogues Govardhan's Travels is more of a philosophical treatise. COMMENT 
`Share'-value of stories todayAs literature gets commodified, the stuff of contracts and media campaigns, only stories that have mass market appeal and encourage us to not think too much are getting noticed. POETRY The glow within Revathy Gopal's is a poetry of family histories and memories. FICTION Struggle for change Goswami weaves into her narrative the turbulent history of Assam and her prose is marked by compassion and humanity. BIOGRAPHY Behind the mask Graham Lord declares that Mortimer, famous lawyer and equally famous writer, is a hoax. ROMANCE On the brink A Raj tale that bubbles at a measured pace. TRANSLATION Life on the golden strip Sankar's book is set in the 1950s when the glittering days of Chowringhee were not yet over. ARCHITECTURE Ethereal beauty The book brilliantly evokes the beauty of one of the world's architectural wonders. Compromises in forms Surveying the architectural traditions in India in the medieval period. SHORT STORIES A breathtaking way with words Margo Lanagan is a words-person who has laboured long and persistently at the craft of languaging stories. INTERVIEW Unfinished journeys Australian poet Syd Harrex talks about his love affair with India and Indian-English writing. |
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