The Good, The Bad and The Holy— A Book Review of “Samskara” by U. R. Ananthamurthy
REVIEWED BY YASHODHARA GUPTA Originally published in the year 1965 in Kannada, Samskara: A Rite for a Dead Man marked the debut of U. R. Ananthamurthy into the literary world, one he would go…...
A Layered Exploration of an Evocative Sibling Relationship— A Review of Akkaalin Elumbugal
REVIEWED BY SHERWIN RODRIGUEZ Akkaalin Elumbugal, which roughly translates to “Sister’s Remains”, is a poignant and evocative collection of Tamil poetry by Veyyil, exploring the intricate and often painful world of women through the unique…...
A Foray into True Humanity— A Review of This Damp House by Bibhu Padhi
REVIEWED BY AMANITA SEN “Strange as it may seem today to say, the aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware. In this state…...
Nawabgunj— Jhelum Trivedi
As a global citizen, Nawabgunj emerges as a microcosm of the world at large with all its diversities, simplicities and predicaments. This place acts as a window through which the poet observes the milieu of living…...
A Satire with a Lightness of Touch— A review of Vivek Shanbag’s Sakina’s Kiss
REVIEWED BY KATHAKALI JANA The ordinariness of middle-class existence is the backdrop of Vivek Shanbagh’s remarkably nuanced novel, Sakina’s Kiss, translated into English from the original Kannada by Srinath Perur. The novel explores the…...
Krishna Gopal Mallick’s Entering the Maze— A Rare Indulgent Voice in the Genre of Queer Fiction
KRISHNA GOPAL MALLICK’S ENTERING THE MAZE— A RARE INDULGENT VOICE IN THE GENRE OF QUEER FICTION REVIEWED BY SUCHETONA PAUL When I finished reading Krishnagopal Mallick’s Entering the Maze, a collection of…...
BOOK EXCERPT FROM MEMOIRS AND LETTERS—RABINDRANATH TAGORE
TRANSLATED FROM THE BENGALI BY MANJIRA DASGUPTA An Episode in Bilaat All the while during my stay in England, I got entangled in a “farce of the first order.” I had got acquainted with…...
A Literary Review on Hemant Divate’s anthology ‘Paranoia’— Shrestha Mukherjee
A BOOK REVIEW BY SHRESTHA MUKHERJEE Hemant Divate's anthology, Paranoia translated into English by Mustansir Dalvi, is a masterful exploration of the intricate corridors of the human psyche. In this collection of poems,…...
No One As Rano Biswas: A Review— Yashodhara Gupta
A BOOK REVIEW BY YASHODHARA GUPTA “Then do you need to stay lonely a bit more? Do you need another slice of darkness? At this very moment, you raised your eyes from the…...