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The Taj of the RajA SKINNY man in a packed Calcutta bus squeezing past three large, pot-bellied men, urged them to move a little. "Can't you see there is no room even for a fly?" the potbellied trio retorted. "Please brothers", pleaded the man, "shuffle yourself a ...
Resisting regimentationGITHA HARIHARAN'S new book, In Times of Siege (Viking, Rs. 295), is about a history academic whose text on the medieval saint Basava attracts the unexpectedly violent attention of Hindu fundamentalist groups. ... IN CONVERSATION 
At the extreme edgesHer black humour opens a "Rear Window" to Hamlet's graveyard ("I love Hitchcock"). She compares a writer's job to puissance, the equestrian competition for judging a horse's ability to jump heights. Only "I compete with myself." Her ...
The resurrection manHENRY KISSINGER'S resignation, as Chairman of the Commission appointed by the Bush administration to investigate into the September 11 terrorist attacks, has brought him back into limelight. He may be called the American Chanakya, or the ...
Epic of extreme absurdityCatch-22 n. a difficult situation from which there is no escape because it involves conditions which conflict with each other. Origin, the title of a novel by Joseph Heller Compact Oxford Reference Dictionary SO, once again war ... THE VIEW FROM KING STREET Imber In 1943 the people of a small English village were forced by the necessities of war to abandon their homes. They have never been allowed to return. CHRISTOPHER HURST visited the village recently, on one of its rare open days. Names and addresses THE degree of formality with which we address each other may no longer seem a major issue in the 21st Century. All the same, modern British reference books such as Whitaker's Almanack still contain highly prescriptive sections on forms of ... DIFFERENT REGISTERS 
No to warIT was just coincidence that I was in London when the biggest anti-war demonstration took place on February 15 this year. My plane had landed late and I had reached my friend's place only around 12.30. It was freezing cold. But when my friend ... 
First ImpressionsWHAT begins as an innocent fascination ends up as an obsession. This is the story of an unusual passion — of a loyal subject for his emperor. For this blasphemy he is banished, with no thought given to his brilliance, to his evocative hand ... ENDPAPER 
The Post-modernist Always Rings Twice and other titlesWHAT'S your favourite book title? Mine, I think, is First Love and Other Sorrows. Followed by More Die of Heartbreak and A Gentle Madness. Just saying them aloud makes me tingle. There's something thrilling about a good ... WORDSPEAK In defence of arcana "WORDSPEAK" columns about the origins of some popular words have readers responding in a variety of ways. Some are amazed ("Well, I never imagined it came from... ."), others ask for the roots or etymology of words, expressions or phrases that ...
Katha, the independent publishing house specialising in translations, is 15 years old. NILANJANA S. ROY attended the birthday bash.
Faith in changeGURCHARAN DAS is that rarity amongst Indian authors, a boxwallah by training and profession, but a creative writer by temperament. He is a well-known playwright ("Mira", "Larins Sahib") and has also written a novel set in modern Punjab. ... REFERENCE 
Delights of discoveryTHE Oxford Paperback Crossword Dictionary — the hardcover was published in 1998 — is a good reference book. Works of reference have a kind of peculiar appeal to hunters, browsers and gazers. This volume offers all the delights ... FICTION Iconic text The reasons for Devdas' popularity may lie in Saratchandra's conservatism regarding the man-woman relationship, says MEENAKSHI MUKHERJEE. SOCIOLOGY 
Beyond disciplinesWith a generous interpretation of sociology and ranging across disciplinary boundaries, The Oxford Companion, examines most vital issues that preoccupy social scientists today, says NEERA CHANDOKE. TRANSLATION Breaking new ground PARTIAL translations of the 19th-century Malayalam novel Saraswativijayam by Kunhambu, and the Telegu play "Kanyasulkam" by Gurajada Venkata Appa Rao, translated respectively by Dilip Menon, C.Vijaysree and T.Vijay Kumar, appeared in ... 
Waiting for democracyTHIS study is an important contribution towards understanding the history, politics and social life in Burma. There are nine chapters, several maps, photographs and an annotated bibliography besides a chronological guide to the Burmese Civil War. ... POLITICAL DISCOURSE 
Theorising casteSelected Writings will enable serious researchers as well as activists to place Phule in the context from which he was constructing an agenda for Dalit assertion, says V. KRISHNA ANANTH. MODERN INDIAN HISTORY Secular narratives Unlike recent state-sponsored history books, these two are rational, open-ended and embrace the full breadth of India's multicultural past, says PARTHO DATTA. Success stories PARTITION had a devastating impact on the Sindhi psyche. Around half of the one million Hindus in Sind migrated from their native soil to India and to the far corners of the world, in many cases leaving their possessions behind. Amazingly enough, ... NARRATOLOGY 
Stories everywhereLooking at everyday linguistic interaction as an icon of narrative activity, Nair rigorously disputes, relocates and rediscovers the site of her subject in Narrative Gravity, says GURUPDESH SINGH. SOCIETY A book for our times Writers have always played an important role in strengthening civil society, and for that reason alone Bruised Memories is significant says ANTARA DEV SEN. TRIBUTE The Bachchan I know WITH the passing away of Sri Harivansh Rai Bachchan, poetic bankruptcy sets in. India has bid adieu to the man of Belles Letters. As a Bachchan reader, I am familiar, only too well, with "Madhushala". Artistic involvement and not indulgence ... FICTION IN TRANSLATION Moments of transformation Listen Girl and Kalikatha, written by writers belonging to two different generations, deal sensitively with defining moments in the life of their characters, says GILLIAN WRIGHT. GLOBAL ECONOMY 
Challenging the World Bank and globalisationTwo books that look at the economic process euphemistically called globalisation. In Depoliticizing Development, Harriss demonstrates how the idea of social capital has become a rhetoric ploy. Naomi Klein's Fences and Windows underscores how international trade laws put up new barriers around knowledge, technology and newly-privatised resources. A review by KARIN KAPADIA. SHORT FICTION 
Narratives from an oriental loomONE gets the impression that in A Chronicle of the Peacocks Intizar Husain is trying to dig into some other reality than the quotidian one we face. And that ain't a cakewalk, buddy. It is hard enough to chronicle our day-to-day angsts, ... DEVELOPMENT 
In the name of the nationEARLY in his book, D'Souza narrates this exchange between himself and a villager: Parvat Varma's boat has a neatly painted slogan on its prow. "Mera Bharat Mahan", it says. My English companion turned to ask me what it meant. After I ... NON-FICTION Understanding Japan JAPAN is part of Asia, but is also, in a sense, apart from it. Japan resembles Britain in its insular aloofness from the mainland. Both countries pioneered a meteoric industrial-commercial course, though their histories took different ... BIOGRAPHY 
Resources of hopeON my recent visit to Wales, I was determined to visit Clodick Church in Raymond Williams' beloved Black Mountains where he was buried on January 26, 1988. From Monmouth to Y Fenny and then to Hay on Wye, passing through Abergavenny and reaching ... MEMOIRS Eclectic and eminently readable Natwar Singh's elegant style, coupled with his erudition, makes Heart to Heart an informative and enjoyable book, says INDER MALHOTRA. HISTORY 
Perceptions of the pastRemembering Partition draws upon written testimony, archival material and the memories of those who actually underwent the violence of Partition, and has a bearing on our understanding of the methodology of disciplinary historiography, says TAPAN RAYCHAUDHURI. |
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