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Poetry on the runBetween catching up on his reading and maintaining a journal, SALEEM PEERADINA manages to discover hinterlands and finds that these days it is the periphery that is coming to the help of the centre. 
Machine in the mirrorFEW subjects can be more arcane than the history of the British Civil Service and the history of computing. But the technological historian Jon Agar, formerly the Director of the UK National Archive for the History of Computing, believes that ...
TRAVEL WRITING 
More than a rain story`The book comes alive in his journey into the "watery innards" of Cherra...and in his account of the lifestyle of the Khasi people.' In the accompanying interview, MURALI N. KRISHNASWAMY talks to Binoo K. John.
CLASSICS REVISITED 
Inside The Outsider A long time ago, I summed up The Outsider in a sentence I realise is extremely paradoxical: `In our society any man who doesn't cry at his mother's funeral is liable to be condemned to death.' I simply meant that the hero of the ... THE VIEW FROM KING STREET Easter in Moscow CHRISTOPHER HURST describes an unusual experience, which he hopes not to repeat. 
BookwatchIN or out of the power equation, the Kennedys of America, like the British royals and the Gandhis of India, have a niche in their nations' psyche that is theirs and theirs alone. So, no biography of the Kennedy who made it to the Oval Office will ... DIFFERENT REGISTERS Cantos in our history I MET Challapalli Swarupa Rani in a writers' meet. She is a young woman who spoke in detail in the meet about how her caste was the major censoring agent in her life. When this combined with gender, the space she could exist in and function from ... 
First ImpressionsTHIS is a strange, disquieting sort of book. It jumps between legend and reality and takes you along a path that is so well traversed. There are leaves plucked from here and there, words plucked from myths and sentences taken from legend but in ... ENDPAPER 
Literary accessoriesTHERE comes a time when even the most inveterate book collector runs out of books to collect. She discovers that she has everything she wants — at least for the moment. She has reached the terrible point of knowing she has all the Ross ... WORDSPEAK The Snow White syndrome THIS month's "Wordspeak" came out of a previous column on the Cinderella complex. Many readers asked about other eponyms based on a fictional or historical character. A series of "Wordspeak" columns on names is slated for the future, including ...
Inadequacy of craft `Ghosh's scholarship is, as usual, impeccable ... but [he] is unable to write with the true depth of feeling of a master.' CINEMA Colourful patchwork `Whatever success this enterprise does have is in the area of film pictures... the black and white photographs assembled here are a delight.' GRAPHIC NOVEL Shadow bands and afternoon light `A graphic novel is part graphics and part novel — and it demands of the author to balance the two.' PROSE Flights into strangeness `Sun After Dark contains some of the most beautiful spiritual essays in contemporary writing.' 
The quest for KaliNEELA BHATTACHARYA SAXENA'S book on Kali is in many ways a unique literary and religious quest. Whereas traditional books on Kali by Indians like Ajit Mookerjee or Westerners like David Kinsley and Rachel McDermott employ a mix of description and ... THRILLER So, what's new? At last, the WMD make an appearance... never mind what's actually happening in Iraq. Recycled myths `Indian whodunnits are still low on the evolutionary scale, but the bereft reader grasps at straws.' JOURNEYS 
Pieces of a picture`The great game country has always exercised incredible fascination for the explorer, the adventurer, the military strategist and the more ordinary traveller.' MEMOIRS A fireburst of creative sparks `These intense pages help us to discern the elements of an artistic mind in quest of newer, more radical perceptions.' TRANSLATION Gripping narrative `Meera Uberoi's language is simple and spare, and the story moves at a fast pace without flagging.'
ISSUES 
Invisible MapsProminent immigrant writers recently spoke at a colloquium on what it means to be a writer in a place that is at once home and not home. PRASANNA RAMASWAMY reports. SHORT STORY 
The letterJUST yesterday Mittu Mama had told me, "Come at exactly three in the afternoon." The usual heartrending letter had to be written to Ganashyam Mama pleading for money. Mittu Mama is my grandmother's brother, miserably poor and "shaddagar" to ... |
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