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A hero betrayedFrom the woman who recently wrote a biography of Anne Frank, comes a biography of Otto Frank, a man who fought bravely for his country in the First World War but found himself being persecuted by its rulers hardly 30 years later. A review by BOB MOORE.
Staying in touch with humanity"It's sheer hysteria," said a British litterateur, referring to the "Arundhati Effect" on the Western world. You saw just what he meant at the Locarno international film festival this year (August 1-11) where Indian writer ARUNDHATI ...
Amichai's little ironiesMy life is spiced with heavy lies, and the longer I live, the bigger the art of forgery keeps growing inside and the more real. The artificial flowers seem more and more natural and the growing ones seem artificial. Who will be able to tell the ... BOOK WATCH 
Some remarkable thingsTHE editors of Granta 78 (£5.99) can congratulate themselves, having had the literary prescience to publish a short story by Jon McGregor, who was then a mere dishwasher in a Nottingham restaurant working on a novel as many a cultured ... DIFFERENT REGISTERS Voices in the wilderness ONE has seen and heard about communal violence and war-related atrocities against women. In 1998 when SPARROW organised a workshop on communal harmony and invited two Sikh women to come and speak about their1984 experiences, after 14 years they ... 
The fate of readingEVERYTHING in the world as we know it would have changed in the 25th Century. Everything but the book. In some cozy corner of a room you will still spy a person reading a book. And she will be holding it as we hold a book today. And it will be ...
Humorous look-see NOT many are aware that the leading writer Ashokamitran had worked at the Gemini Studios for some years as Public Relations Officer at a time when the Indian movie mogul S.S. Vasan and Gemini Studios were at the zenith of creative activity in ... POETRY 
Raking up the everydayIt is impossible to get away from Anita Nair's poems, evoking as they do states of mind that we recognise immediately. Yet, there is a difference between being a poet of the ordinary and an ordinary poet, says KALA KRISHNAN RAMESH. 
Nerve-end sensationsIs writing poetry very different from writing prose? Do you follow the same writing process for both? TO categorise it very simply, my prose stems from an idea whereas my poetry is born from a feeling. Naturally this means that there is a ... CONTEMPORARY POLITICS 
Making sense of changed livesWorlds in Collision, in bringing together a range of scholars from across the spectrum, is an indication of the directions that intellectual debates have taken since `9/11', says PRANAB DHAL SAMANTA. HISTORY Timeless classic Reprints of classics need as much editorial care as new manuscripts, says NARAYANI GUPTA, reviewing a reissue of Alberuni's Al Hind. SOCIETY Anatomy of a riot The Deadly Ethnic Riot, based on a number of case studies from different countries, looks at the social psychology of riots, says SUDHANSHU RANADE. PERSONALITY 
The man behind the missileSOARING skyward on wings of fire, A.P.J. Abdul Kalam is now the 12th President of the largest democracy in the world. But while everyone recognises him as the wizard missile-man, most people have meagre awareness of the man behind the ... NON-FICTION 
Intimations of immortalityIn the nature of a contemplation on writing and writers, Negotiating with the Dead is motivated by Atwood's desire to bring something back from the dead, says M.S. NAGARAJAN. POETRY 
Goodness of nature and GodROSE MARY WILKINSON'S collection Sing in the Wind with Love contains 105 poems, mostly inspired by spiritual devotion and the admiration of nature and its beauty. Some of the other pieces in the collection are "occasioned-poetry" written ... HIGHER EDUCTION Globalisation and the gendered academia Gendered and the Restructured University is of immense value for understanding the male-dominated, massive, market-oriented structural and organisational changes that are now sweeping the universities in the West, says P. RADHAKRISHNAN. BIOGRAPHY 
Medicine manA Life of Healing is a sympathetic and often personal reading of the life of P.S. Varier, the founder of the Kottakal-based Arya Vaidyashala, says KAVITA SIVARAMAKRISHNAN. FICTION 
Creative confusionIn spite of the fact that the narrative should have been 80-100 pages shorter, one gets rather fond of Pi, the plucky, innovative and forever hopeful survivor, says ZAHIDA WHITAKER. TRANSLATION Imperfect justice to Tagore Though flawed, Four Chapters needs to be commended for displaying a measure of scholarly ambition, says SWAPAN CHAKRAVORTY. TRANSLATION 
Desiccated roots"Translations (like wives) are seldom faithful if they are in the least attractive," maintains Roy Campbell. On that criterion, Roots can be considered to be entirely faithful to its original text in Malayalam. The disappointment of the ... 
New BooksContemporary Indian Art: Other Realities, edited by Yashodhara Dalmia, Marg Publications, p.140, Rs. 2250. Embattled Identities: Rajput Lineages and the Colonial State in 19th-Century North India, Malavika Kasturi, OUP, ... 
From the blurb..."India's beauty queens did a hat trick in 2000, winning the titles of Miss World, Miss Universe and Miss Asia-Pacific. Earlier winners like Aishwarya Rai had by then become household names. Coincident was the leap in the cosmetics industry, from ...
Exclusive extracts from Ravi Shankar Etteth's first work of fiction, published recently.
Passage to France"GANESHA ... help us," says Jean-Claude Perrier, raising his hands and then looking towards the ceiling. People around glance at him and smile. A Frenchman taken in by the sights and sounds of India? Yes, to an extent, but to be more ... 
Man Booker 2002 factfileON Monday, August 19, the panel of judges for selecting this year's Man Booker Prize, announced the long list of 20 authors, selected from a total of 130 entries this year. In alphabetical order: The Strange Case of Dr. Simmonds & Dr. ... CHILDREN'S LITERATURE A judicious choice The Hans Christian Andersen Awards are given by The International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY) to an author and illustrator every alternate year. This time around, Aidan Chambers and Quentin Blake get the nod, says PREMA SRINIVASAN. |
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