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Books and Blogging: My Side of the Story

Posted in Srilankan Tamil, Tamil, Tamil Tigers, academics, activism, advertising, blogging, book, caste, chatting, culture, dalit, feminist writing, india, intellectuals, internet addiction, personal, personality, politics, reading, research, silence, violence, work, writing, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on October 16, 2009 | 7 Comments »

This presentation was made at the Panel Discussion on The Digital Public Sphere: Books in the Age of New Media, Oct. 15, 2009, Iowa City Public Library as part of the 2009 Obermann Humanities Symposium PLATFORMS FOR PUBLIC SCHOLARS. Professor Teresa Mangum at the Department of English, University of Iowa invited me to this, and [...]

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If you ever find me

Posted in book, happiness, tagged , , , on September 3, 2009 | 2 Comments »

saying the Pledge of Allegiance some day, you can be sure that it is because of the libraries here (at least the University of Iowa’s Main Library).  I am allowed to check out 500 books. At once.
Can it get any better? At all? God, I so love this place, this arrangement.

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Review of V.V.Ganeshananthan’s LOVE MARRIAGE

Posted in Srilankan Tamil, Tamil Tigers, human rights, violence, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on September 1, 2009 | 2 Comments »

(Exclusive to my blog, this hasn’t been published elsewhere)
DANCING ON LAND-MINES
Love Marriage
By V.V.Ganeshananthan
Publisher: Phoenix
Price: Rs 350
Pages: 310
Set in a land where death is alive and has renewed lifetimes, Love Marriage, is a work of fiction that deals with the ethnic strife in Sri Lanka. By tackling the complex issues of violence, politics and identity in [...]

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Signs of friction and fissures: A review of “Cutting for Stone”

Posted in book, children, culture, family, fiction, novel, virginity, women, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on February 19, 2009 | 2 Comments »

 

Cutting for Stone
By Abraham Verghese
Publisher: Random House
Pages: 541
Price: Rs 595.
Marion Stone, son of Sister Mary Joseph, an Indian nurse-nun and Thomas Stone, a British surgeon tells the story of his life for the sake of his conjoined twin brother Shiva. Born in Missing Hospital in Addis Ababa where his parents worked, Marion and his twin [...]

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Book Review: Muslim Portraits

Posted in Mumbai, academics, activism, book, caste, culture, hindutva, human rights, india, politics, research, silence, subaltern studies, untouchability, violence, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on December 14, 2008 | 5 Comments »

Muslim Portraits: Everyday Lives in India
By Mukulika Banerjee (Editor)
Publisher: Yoda Press
Pages: 142 + xxii
Price: Rs.250
By following a policy of alienation and exclusion towards its Muslim population, India has earned a fair share of criticism. The Sachar Committee exposed how Indian Muslims have suffered from prejudice, poverty and political disenfranchisement. The committee’s report showed that Muslims [...]

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the winner will be

Posted in book, culture, fiction, novel, reading, writing, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on October 12, 2008 | 6 Comments »

As the Man Booker Prize enters its fortieth year in 2008, it retains its position as the most respected literary prize for English language fiction published in the UK and the Commonwealth. Despite its glamorous halo of quality, the prize has attracted attention because of its controversial nature — a wife on the jury fought [...]

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Book Review: The Immigrant

Posted in academics, book, culture, men, migration, novel, women, writing, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on September 28, 2008 | 3 Comments »

The Immigrant
By Manju Kapur
Publisher: Random House India
Price: Rs 395
Pages: 336
SEX sells. Sexual dysfunction, as a plot device, tries hard and in the process makes use of an anaesthetic, a timer and couple-therapy. Apart from this single, sinful exception, Manju Kapur’s The Immigrant fails to offer any fresh insight through its tortured portrayal of an NRI [...]

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Book, booker, booked

Posted in book, culture, fiction, india, media, novel, writing, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on September 13, 2008 | 21 Comments »

“The future was a casino, everyone was gambling, and everyone expected to win.” Salman Rushdie (Fury)
Every time an Indian has won the Booker, it has triggered off a boom in the publication of Indian English fiction. This book boom, this opportunity-knocking-repeatedly-on-many-doors, this “democratization” (if it could be called that) of the publishing industry has ensured [...]

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reading, after ages

Posted in Eelam liberation struggle, academics, book, culture, exam tension, feminism, reading, research, tagged , , , , , , , , on June 10, 2008 | 3 Comments »

In case I haven’t complained to y’all, my university is closed for vacation and it will open sometime in the first week of July (when I have to sit for that damning COMPREHENSION EXAMINATION). So I am sitting at home. And preparing for that examination. (I won’t bore you with the particulars).
But I have a [...]

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Ayyankali

Posted in academics, activism, blogging, book, caste, culture, dalit, dalit christians, india, reading, research, subaltern studies, work, writing, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on April 6, 2008 | 16 Comments »

In devoting this blog excessively to my personal life, or my phd or my poetry, I have done a major disservice to my non-fiction and translations. So, I think I should remedy this situation, and write about two of my books that were relased in the past 6 months. The more recent one (published in [...]

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