Literary Trails
Sara Shagufta, the tragic young poet who took her life in 1984 aged thirty, comes to life in these fresh translations of her Urdu verses by Riyaz Latif …[Read More]…
Literary Trails
On the occasion of his birth anniversary,19 September, The Beacon pays tribute to Kunwar Narain (1927-2017), re-issuing a collection of his works, first published in this journal 30 April 2021. Also included are links to some of the events that were organized in his remembrance 17-19 September 2021.”…[Read More]…
Bookshelf
In her latest novel, Alka Saraogi weaves history, myth, geography and boundaries as metaphor for frailties and divisions into a story of flawed protagonists, of Kulbhushan Jain, shrugged off as an outsider who wants to be in. Translated by Nandini Bhattacharya, …[Read More]…
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These stories by Ambai translated by GJV Prasad from Tamil, resonate with love in its avatars, parental, carnal, divine; never explained just experienced. Pradeep Trikha reviews.…[Read More]…
That’s Life!!!
Prakash is a schoolboy whose odyssey towards a self-awareness and grounded education ought to be a lesson for us all on meaningful learning. A short fiction by Lakshmi Kannan…[Read More]…
Between The Lines
Reading the memoirs of Dalits can help free the upper caste liberal of the pious but needless moral burden of defining them. Just listen to the internality of a Dalit life instead, urges Ratnakar Tripathy …[Read More]…
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A.J. Thomas reviews Tea: A Concoction of Dissonance by poets P. Ahilan and Geetha Sukumaran and artist Vaidekhi who create poem-pictures of tea-meditations in this bi-lingual compilation translated by Vidhya Sreenivasan. …[Read More]…
Between The Lines
Stepping back from the popular perception of Taliban ‘terror’ Padmaja Challakere traces the causes of Afghanistan’s blighted condition to America’s hegemonic war and its tyrannical legacies…[Read More]…