Literary Trails
Anubhav Tulasi’s poetry is suffused with the colour and odour of the Assamese soil and the sensibilities of the Assamese mind. He considers himself an Indian poet with his Assamese identity, intact A selection rendered from Assamese by various translators. …[Read More]…
Literary Trails
A neo-gothic tale of a down and out thief and his moment of epiphany when he ‘witnesses’ in the dead of night an old couple being threatened by goons. Are they ‘pleading for his help? Imagination or destiny? U. K. Kumaran. Tr. from Malayalam by K. M. Ajir Kutty …[Read More]…
Literary Trails
Poet-artist Radha Gomaty pens a moving fable of a woman seeking love, her disappointments and the pursuit of a resurrection that is just a finger away yet ungraspable, …[Read More]…
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Rashmi Narzary’s heartfelt yet detached narrative of three generations of a family search for roots, as its village changes its identity from being Indian, to Pakistani, then becoming Bangladeshi. An excerpt.…[Read More]…
Personal Notes
In this riveting talk, Chaturvedi Badrinath casts light on the symbiotically spiritual relationship Swami Vivekananda had with some of his American women-followers and femininity in general. They were not ‘instruments for use:’ he never used any human being for his own ends or for his work’. …[Read More]…
That’s Life!!!
Architect-Poet-Calligrapher H. Masud Taj contemplates space-time via a chapati travelogue and memoir that enfolds his poetry and calligraphy. …[Read More]…
That’s Life!!!
Self-proclaimed professor in English language skills at a couching college in Kota and editor of its political journal. U.R Sane writes to his fellow-traveller in Atlanta laying out likely outcomes of manufactured realities and recent events. A fiction that tells a looking-glass truth…[Read More]…
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Thamizhachi Thangapandian’s view of the harmony in nature as part of her own internal ecosystem as well as the society’s collective heritage ensures that she does not alienate herself to gain perspective but unapologetically remains one with it. A. J. Thomas reviews her latest, translated by K.S. Subramanian…[Read More]…
Literary Trails
Asokan Charuvil’s stories are sharp commentaries on societies torn apart by competing ideologies. The Sea of the Dead is an allegory on times changing, from a more simple nature-friendly life to a modern consumerist one.. Translated from Malayalam by K. M. Ajir Kutty …[Read More]…
Between The Lines
Are texts, metaphysical, literary, scientific, technical, spiritual, incantatory, political, cutting across all genres cast in stone, open to only a literal articulation? Or are they interpretive, open to multiple ways of reading asks Bharani Kollipara and centralizes discourse and its legacies in every act of ‘reading-as-interpretation’.…[Read More]…
Between The Lines
Folklore is the artifice of enchantment; liminal, it includes the sites of both sorrow and joy; death and life but boundaries are fluid, forest-covered, unmapped. Alok Bhalla on folklore as gateway to life’s renewal.…[Read More]…