Bookshelf
Geetanjali Shree joins the longlist for this year’s international Man Booker award with her novel Tomb pf Sand translated by Daisy Rockwell in a first for a Hindi –language fiction to be considered for the prestigious award. The Beacon republishes the extract from the translation that appeared last November. Get a glimpse of its unique flavor!…[Read More]…
Between The Lines
Paul Zacharia remembers Kamala Das (March 1934-May 2009) as not just a major poet in both Malayalam and English but a fierce iconoclast whose feminism shocked conservative opinion as did her conversation to Islam. …[Read More]…
Literary Trails
Kedarnath Singh (1934-2018) wrote poetry in deceptively simple language encompassing within his imagery the complexity of our troubled times and language itself, offering the reader a lot to think about even while savouring his sparse elegance. Translated from Hindi by Alok Bhalla. …[Read More]…
Literary Trails
Subhadra Kumari Chauhan’s story reveals the complex fate of a young widow who can neither express her sentiments nor withhold them. Society looks upon her with opprobrium while those who know her personally, fear both her power and her reticence. Malashri Lal translates from Hindi. …[Read More]…
Visual Spaces
Darius Cooper, poet and author of works on Satyajit Ray and Guru Dutt remembers the birth of his passion for cinema from what he calls the golden age of world cinema screening in seventies Bombay. …[Read More]…
Between The Lines
To homogenise the hijab into one single idea is to homogenise the entire population of Muslim women and to betray and deny their lived experiences as both hijabi and non-hijabi Muslim women, argues Izza Ahsan…[Read More]…
Literary Trails
A constant and tranquil voice in Indian English and Odia poetry collected in several volumes, Bibhu Padhi expresses the ineffable in calm and gentle tones, at times melancholic but with hope and yearning as the “earth sits still/on its own ground “ and solitude is a memory that “does not belong to you” …[Read More]…
Bookshelf
John Lang (1816-1864) was a man of many parts: wanderer, slanderer, lawyer for the Rani of Jhansi and a prolific writer of travels and fiction. Amit Ranjan’s book probes those parts. Mridula Garg reads and offers her own insights from her excavations into the site called John Lang. …[Read More]…
Between The Lines
If we are to call out Russia’s actions as pre-emptive war, how should we view the West’s invasions of Iraq, Syria Afghanistan and other sovereign states? What role does language and hubris play in justifying such wars of terror asks Ashoak Upadhyay.…[Read More]…