Personal Notes
On October 09 2017, V.C. Harris, polymath literary critic. translator social activist and teacher-mentor met with a fatal accident. His students, poets A.J. Thomas, S. Jospeh and translator-critic Cheri Jacob K. pay tributes. ..[Read More]…
Literary Trails
An original rendition from Malayalam of a short story by the late polymath and teacher, V.C. Harris that almost reads like a creation myth. Translated by Cheri Jacob K. …[Read More]…
Personal Notes
Steering clear of postcolonial sensibilities, Indo-Guyanese poet and writer Cyril Dabydeen ‘reads’ V.S.Naipaul as a writer seeking that free state of an indwelling life committed to art while “pushing the boundaries of fiction and autobiography” towards the “heart of his organic nature”...[Read More]…
Personal Notes
Darius Cooper drives with son from Los Angeles to John Steinbeck country with a stop-over at Henry Miller’s Big Sur log cabin and discovers a little more about himself...[Read More]…
Personal Notes
Bilingual writer Paul Zacharia travels back in time to his childhood in a remote village in Kerala and to the birthing of his ‘invisible vocation’, reading and writing in a farmer’s household...[Read More]…
Visual Spaces
”To see our face in the mirror we cannot move. If we do, all we see is just momentum” finds artist Nirmala Singh. An award winning painter, she uses abstraction to draw the relation between mood and motion.…[Read More]…
Bookshelf
Chandana Dutta and Abu Zahir Rabbani profile Joginder Paul and his legacy for Sahitya Akademi series on Makers Of Indian Literature. In the second book by Chandan Dutta she engages with Krishna Paul. Both reviewed by Ranjana Kaul.…[Read More]…
Bookshelf
With a deft combination of data and personal interviews Vivan Marwaha offers glimpses of what the young want, and what they get–a surfeit of degrees, dreams and despair. Review by Ashoak Upadhyay…[Read More]…
Between The Lines
What led Gandhi that “incorrigible optimist” to lose the will to live, crave death so soon into country’s independence? Based on his public confessions, Sudhir Chandra asks disturbing questions of us who celebrate his anniversaries, unmindful of his agonies.…[Read More]…
Between The Lines
He died with the name of Ram on his lips. Who was this Ram he invoked all his life? The historical Ram? What did the name siignify for Gandhi? Tridip Suhrud offers some clues into a moral vision Ramanama held for him.…[Read More]…
Personal Notes
Playwright Atamjit on how he came by Makhan Singh the leftist, non-violent freedom fighter who negotiated between his cultural roots in India and belongingness to a distant Kenya and how the Indo-kenyan became the inspiration for the play The Red Prophet...[Read More]…
Between The Lines
Indulging in a flight of fantasy, Tridip Suhrud hones in on remembrances of Gandhi that reflect our desires to do away with him, not with bulllets but with statues and spectacle. And yet he lives……[Read More]…