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Who is the real Yash Chopra? The professional filmmaker-director, the persona one extrapolates from his films or the quiet, private person? After writing a book on the man, RACHEL DWYER still finds him elusive to the grasp.
Laughter in the darkOn the anniversary of September 11, TISHANI DOSHI talks to MARTIN AMIS in his London residence about what it means to be comic in defiance of the world, about tragedy and collective human consciousness and his new ... ENCOUNTER 
Achieving anonymityGOWRI RAMNARAYAN meets Alastair Reed, the translator of Neruda and Borges, at the Edinburgh Book Festival and finds out what it is like to fall between two cultures and two languages. 
Against the tideTHACHOM POYIL RAJEEVAN hopes Yeti will be able to accommodate writers who are different and poets who are not welcome in mainstream publishing. Excerpts from an e-mail interview with SUBASH JEYAN. Can ...
Most of the big publishing houses do not publish poetry anymore. But, sustained by quite a few practitioners and a few brave, and small, publishers, poetry is alive and kicking, says DOM MORAES.
A celebration of Indran Amirthanayagam, the Sri Lankan American poet/diplomat, and his poetry by MOHAN RAMANAN.
Two Polish poetsIF poetry is "born out of quarrels with ourselves", does history influence poetic sensibility? Links between the "word" and historical experiences can be of various kinds, and there is no simple relationship of cause and effect. But if there is a ... WORDSPEAK A matter of syntax as well THE previous "Wordspeak" that quoted a résumé as an example of Indian English made readers such as Ravikiran Phadake of Coventry, England, wonder if anyone in fact could write something so "absolutely incredible." Many others, including several ... DIFFERENT REGISTERS Swim or sink? THE Muslim Women's Research and Action Forum at Colombo had organised an interesting conference on New Challenges to Creative Writing on August 27 and 28, this year. This was planned more as a kind of a workshop for Muslim women in Sri Lanka who ... 
The creator of Arkady RenkoMARTIN CRUZ SMITH is not merely America's greatest thriller writer, he's one of their best writers, period. And yet he goes unsung and unread in India. Smith is probably best known for his ground-breaking spy novel, Gorky Park, which ... BOOKWATCH Lost and found SOME students at a course recently asked me how the right reviewers are found for books. Sometimes, determined books take charge and find their own reviewers. A reviewer had just collected an expensive photography book from The Hindu's ... BOOKWATCH 
FootlooseCIRCA 1950 B.C. had its share of people with restless feet. Sinuhe, an Egyptian traveller, reveals the inner state of many compulsive travellers: "This flight which I undertook I did not anticipate...it was those shudderings of my body as ... BOOKWATCH 
GhostbustingIN his twenties, A.K. Ramanujan said in his unfinished introduction to The Flowering Tree, he began collecting tales from anyone who would tell him one — carpenters, tailors, aunts, mother. The editors of The Weretiger have ... BOOKWATCH 
Academic cocktailEvam, a new journal, is subtitled: "forum on Indian representations". Naively, I thought the italicised "re" was a graphic designer's trick before coming upon the editorial statement that the magazine aimed to ...
Memories of romanceYash Chopra's films have made the transition smoothly from the family melodramas of the 1970s to the teenybopper romances of the 1990s. Rachel Dwyer's book charts this journey memorably, besides taking one back to memories of growing up, says UMA MAHADEVAN-DASGUPTA. NOSTALGIA 
Memorialising the Twin TowersIN a slim tall volume of images, the Twin Towers rise again, like the two wings of a myth that will not let them perish. In this commemorative volume of extraordinary images that document the building of the World Trade Center, in Lower ... 
From the blurb...`... When M.S. Subbulakshmi began to sing, her electrifying performance dazzled audiences around the world. M.S. Subbulakshmi's music is replete with the feeling of bhakti, a complete surrender to the devotion of god... For many, she is ... CULTURAL STUDIES 
Inaugurating a nationTHIS elegantly produced book — smooth to the touch, pleasing to the eye and gently stimulating to the mind — focuses on a group of Calcutta-based English poets of the 19th Century, more heard of than read, whose place in any history ... TRAVELOGUE A nose for adventure Tangerine is a distinguished example of an English sensibility and humour brought to bear on the mysteries of the Orient, says KESHAV DESIRAJU. HISTORY 
The man who would be kingInvolving questions of evidence, proof and identity, the Bhawal case fitted the form of fiction. Partha Chatterjee's reworking of the case brings out the problem of truth in narrative history, how it depends more on narrative plausibility than on metaphysical questions of identity, says SUPRIYA CHAUDHURI. PHILOSOPHY 
The pursuit of a passionBetween Two Worlds, the autobiography of J.N. Mohanty, is likely to be of interest to both professionals and laymen keen on philosophy and social history, says JAIBOY JOSEPH. NON-FICTION 
Beyond boundariesRushdie's is an educated, independent voice, alive and sensitive to the concerns of the times and not mandated by any pressure group, says PADMINI DEVARAJAN. CRITIQUE Informed interventions NEWSPAPER columns are ephemeral things. Like the butterfly, they have a 24-hour lifespan. Yet, at their best, they can serve to cast light — albeit more in terms of the humble torchlight than the blinding searchlight — on unfolding ... 
Voicing vulnerabilityUsing case studies, Speaking Peace echoes the silent screams of the women of the Kashmir valley, the section of society most affected in the decade-long struggle, says ADITI KAPOOR. POETRY 
Musings and nostalgiaTHIS is the third collection of poems by the author in a period of three years. Poetry has an ability to feed the heart and mind and as W.B. Yeats once said, "Poetry is a quarrel with oneself" while rhetoric is a quarrel with others. The poet ... Energising the real economy India's Economy covers a wide range of issues connected with monetary financial economics in a developing country like India in the context of globalisation, says KALYANJIT ROY CHOUDHURY. |
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