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Online edition of India's National Newspaper Sunday, March 02, 2008 |
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COMMENT The Bard in India today What has Mr. William Shakespeare got to do with our lives today? A lot, apparently…
LimelightThe Cleft; The Sun Between Their Feet: Collected African Stories Vol. 2; Doris Lessing, HarperCollins, £7.99 and £.8.99. Winner of the Nobel Prize of Literature 2007. Doris Lessing is one of the most celebrated and ... 
Short takesTwo Tales of My Times: New Delhi Times and Maachis; Gulzar; Rupa, Rs. 395.Two Tales of My Times presents two of Gulzar’s most thought-provoking and hard-hitting film scripts “New Delhi Times” and ...
CLASSOCS REVISITED 
The simple art of story-tellingThe Adventures of Amir Hamza, Ghalib Lakhnavi and Abdullah Bilgrami, complete and unabridged translation by Musharraf Ali Farooqui, Random House, India, 2008. Rs. 795.Story-telling in the oral cultures of the Eastern world is a part of ... 
First impressionsThe book’s name and cover design is a dead ringer for what to expect through its pages. Lashkar tries to make sense of the terror that now surrounds our lives; to configure the stories of men who join the terror ... SECOND THOUGHTS Theroux: Tips and tales Much like one never steps into the same river twice, one can never quite visit the same place again. ENDPAPER Talking of Carver Raymond Carver’s short stories are well known, his poems less known. But it is Carver, the teacher, who is in focus here.
PROSE Of rotting pink threads and more Kesavan both describes and dissects beautifully the ‘problem’ of the Indian male. SPORT A cricketing disaster The book uses the World Cup 2007 as a backdrop to unearth world cricket’s pressing issues. TRANSLATION Tales of determined women Krishna Sobti, one of the Hindi language’s enduring authors, is now available in vibrant and faithful translations. FICTION A familiar loneliness Hasan’s world is Shillong, peopled by characters you can feel for…and cringe for. Echoes across time Two strands of stories, separated by 200 years, each with its catalogue of miseries… SHORT FICTION Of love and grief Each story, touching lightly upon the human condition, is sure-footed in its movement and measured in its pace. CINEMA A little premature? While articles on Girish Kasaravalli are welcome, isn’t the filmmaker’s best yet to come? FICTION Intensely culture bound A warm human tale that makes a good read. RETROSPECT Fighting for a cause Nayantara Sahgal’s books have a subtlety and sensitivity that comes with practice. Soul of Thiruvananthapuram The translation fails to capture the nuances of the original. TRANSLATION Society in transition U.R. Ananthamurthy’s writings examine the nature of a traditional society that is trying to modernise itself. MEMOIR The larger picture Saeed Mirza’s book encompasses different genres but strikes a chord. PEOPLE More questions than answers This book is the first account of Kodava history from a non-colonial perspective. DALIT HISTORY Liberation narrative Prisons transcends the boundaries of personal narrative… MEMOIRS A half-full cup Davidar’s is a strictly top-down view of life in the plantations. |
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