Posted in poetry, tagged Adam Aitken, admiration, Australia, Australian writing, Boey Kim Cheng, canon, Geoff Page, Indian poetry in English, Indian Writing in English, Jaydeep Sarangi, Keki N Daruwallah, literature, mascara literary review, Meena Kandasamy, Michelle Cahill, personal poetry, poems, poetry magazine, poetry publication, poets, review, Sukrita Paul Kumar, Touch, writers on June 8, 2009 | 3 Comments »
For once, I will let my words do the talking
Two of my poems (Straight Talk and Mrs.Sunshine)
A review of Touch by Professor Jaydeep Sarangi
have appeared in MASCARA LITERARY REVIEW that’s published from Australia and edited by Boey Kim Cheng, Michelle Cahill and Adam Aitken.
Please stop over and read the review by Prof.Sarangi. It’s really the [...]
Posted in blogging, book, children, city, culture, family, fiction, india, novel, parents, women, writing, tagged Abha Dawesar, aesthetics, arms deal, book review, childhood, disease, doctors, drug addiction, family, Family Values, home, i.witness, Indian English fiction, Indian Writing in English, institution, Jessica Lal case, life, literature, medicine, middle class, motherhood, nation, New Delhi, Nithari killings, novel, Novels, politics, property, relatives, siblings, society, The New Sunday Express, TNIE, values, women, writing on May 12, 2009 | 2 Comments »
(Both this review, and the following interview with the author were first published in i.witness, The New Sunday Express last Sunday)
SOME HOME TRUTHS ABOUT RELATIONSHIPS
With a plucky, precocious little boy as its protagonist, Family Values delivers some home truths about the illnesses that pervade Indian society. Narrated from the point of view of a child [...]
Posted in academics, activism, work, writing, tagged 3QD, 3quarksdaily, both sides of the sky, city poetry, Eelam, Eunice de souza, genocide, green left weekly, india, Indian Writing in English, literature, personal, poetry, politics, post-independence poetry, richard dawkins, Sri Lanka, steven pinker, Tamil, Tamil Nadu, urban poetry, Vanni, writing on April 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
What’s happening in the Vanni is becoming more atrocious by the day: we earlier mourned for the hundreds dead each day, now it is into the thousands. Reading any news simply sends me spiralling into depression. Wanted to sort of take stock of what is going on with my life. Blog posts here shall become [...]
Posted in novel, reading, writing, tagged Bulgaria, Communism, fiction, Indian Writing in English, life, magic realism, meaning, misry, music, Novels, Rana Dasgupta, review, Sofia, Solo, surreal, The New Sunday Express on April 10, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Publisher: HarperCollins India
Price: Rs.395
Pages: 357
In his critically acclaimed second novel that is dominating best-seller lists, Rana Dasgupta tells the story of a 100-year-old man who does not want the end of his life to be a mindless, meaningless falling-off. Inspired and shaken by a newspaper report about the traumatic death of parrots who had preserved [...]
Posted in book, children, culture, family, fiction, novel, virginity, women, tagged Abraham verghese, African women, Books, Cutting for Stone, ethiopia, female genital mutilation, hurt, india, Indian Literature in English, Indian Writing in English, John Irving, love, medicine, novel, politics, redemption, review, revolution, stereotypes, storytelling, twins, women 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 [...]
Posted in Dr.Ambedkar, Mumbai, Tamil, blogging, book, caste, dalit, fiction, india, influence, love, media, money, sex, subaltern studies, tamil films, violence, vulgarity, women, work, writing, tagged Aravind Adiga, Arundhati Roy, bollywood, Cinema, cricket, dalit, Dalit muslim, Danny Boyle, denial, Gandhi, i.witness, identity, india, indian literature, indian writing, Indian Writing in English, literature, love, media, newspapers, politics, poverty, prostitution, real India, realism, reality, religion, representation, Ritwik Ghatak, Satyajit Ray, Slumdog Millionaire, slums, tamil films, television, The New Indian Express, victims, White Tiger on January 26, 2009 | 12 Comments »
(My article first appeared in the Sunday Magazine i.witness of The New Indian Express. Read the official online version here.)
“There is no nation of Indians in the real sense of the world, it is yet to be created. In believing we are a nation, we are cherishing a great delusion.” — Dr. B R Ambedkar
Indian [...]
Posted in blogging, caste, culture, india, influence, love, men, personal, personality, poetry, poetry publishing, sex, work, writing, tagged GJV Prasad, india, Indian English Literature, Indian Writing in English, literature, Muse India, new year, Nitoo Das, personal, poems, poetry, Ranu Uniyal, Red Room, redroom.com, Slumdog Millionaire, Sukrita Paul Kumar, Volver, website, women, writing on January 1, 2009 | 4 Comments »
As every four-year-old knows, the new year provides some sort of a platform for looking back, and for looking ahead. I didn’t really want to do a typical “new year post” or a “looking back at last year post”
Will not philosophize on what prevents me from doing either of these things (this year has been [...]
Posted in academics, book, culture, men, migration, novel, women, writing, tagged arranged marriages, book review, Books, Canada, diaspora, family, feminism, fiction, immigration, india, Indian Writing in English, Manju Kapur, middle class, novel, plot, reviews, sex, sex therapy, sexual dysfunction, sexuality, The Immigrant, The New Indian Express 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 [...]
Posted in book, culture, fiction, india, media, novel, writing, tagged Altaf Tyrewala, Aravind Adiga, Arundhati Roy, autobiography, best-seller, Booker, Books, campus novel, Chetan Bhagat, chick lit, criticism, critics, english, fiction, Fury, india, Indian, Indian English, Indian fiction, Indian Writing in English, influence, literature, marketing, novel, NRI, publishing, Salman Rushdie, style, The New Indian Express, The New Sunday Express, theme, university fiction, writing 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 [...]
Posted in poetry, women, tagged city poetry, cover, indian writing, Indian Writing in English, poems, poetry publishing, sheher, urban poetry, women on August 4, 2008 | 17 Comments »
We are still experimenting… But here’s the tentative front cover… Let me know what you think. Artwork was specially commissioned from Chalukya for this cover. Amazing talent, in my opinion…
Posted in culture, poetry, women, writing, tagged city poetry, indian women poets, indian women writing, Indian Writing in English, peacock books, urban poetry on July 26, 2008 | 10 Comments »
So, after racking my tiny little brain and troubling every one I knew for ideas, I just came up with the title for this book… And Priya Sarukkai even found it cool, so I guess it isn’t so bad…
SHEHER
Urban Poetry by Indian Women.
(I won’t praise its merits. For the lot of those who don’t know [...]
Posted in book, city, poetry, women, writing, tagged city poetry, frog books, indian poetry, indian women poets, Indian Writing in English, peacock books, poetry publication, poets, urban poetry, women poetry on July 11, 2008 | 5 Comments »
The final line-up (names in alphabetical order (last name-wise)–for those who are wondering at this arbitrariness)
Usha Akella, Meena Alexander, Anoopa Anand, Jane Bhandari, Rukmini Bhaya Nair, Sujata Bhatt, Sampurna Chattarji, Rimi Chatterjee, Pervin Chhapkhanawala, Roselyn D’Mello, Mamang Dai, Kamala Das, Nabina Das, Atreyee Day, Eunice De Souza, Mira Desai, Nandini Dhar, Imitiaz Dharker, Tishani Doshi, [...]
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