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Odia novel Maya Purush by Paramita Satpathy is a first-person narrative of a man who feels he is nothing, an illusion, as he leads a dual life. The first chapter of forthcoming translation by Anuradha Sen …[Read More]…
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Final Wishes is the original, first chapter of Paul Zacharia’s novel, in English. Dropped by common consent as the author explains in his Note it sets the stage teasingly enough for a fantasy about the art of lying, peopled by improbably ‘real’ characters ” …[Read More]…
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The Gollancz Book of South Asian Science Fiction (2019), a first-of-its-kind compilation offers a fascinating display of South Asian writing. In the Introduction, Tarun K. Saint takes us on a journey over its rich past and the exciting future of this genre..…[Read More]…
Between The Lines
Political lies and falsehoods work their malevolent magic when they are transmitted as images of manufactured reality, illusions that create the complicit subject says Ashoak Upadhyay…[Read More]…
Personal Notes
“No friend can come to your side and one cannot, in good conscience hold that expectation of anyone.” In this desolate aloneness Anannya Dasgupta turns to haiku and the “aesthetic loneliness of sabi...[Read More]…
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A very timely parable on the need to distinguish between ‘humanitarian’ and the ‘human’, Manjula Padmanabhan’s one act play entertains and provokes.…[Read More]…
Between The Lines
Recent moves by the administrator of Lakshadweep will have severe ecological, social and cultural impact on the inhabitants not to mention on the fragile ecosystem around the islands says Vikalp Sangam…[Read More]…
Literary Trails
A light-hearted tale of a serial talker whose company neighbours avoid and how he almost won the motor-mouth slug-fest; by Saeed Ibrahim, illustrated by Danesh Bharucha. . …[Read More]…
Literary Trails
A story that works at two levels: the surface one, where Intizar Husain records man’s priority for commerce and at the deeper level of an unspoken bond with Nature that is wordless; memory speaks/suffices. …[Read More]…
Literary Trails
Inflected with ‘environmental sensibilities; Majeed Amjad and Amiq Hanafi offer us poetic visions that should open our eyes and make us think of the world and the ineffable. Both translated from Urdu by Riyaz Latif…[Read More]…
Between The Lines
A tribal matriarch nurtures forests like her own children. A rooted conservationist for fifty years, Tulsi Gowda was awarded the Padma Shri but her head is still turned towards her saplings.…[Read More]…
Literary Trails
Poet Vinod Kumar Shukla and late painter J. Swaminathan, created works that talk to each other about what should but doesn’t matter to us: Trees. …[Read More]…