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TRIBUTE: O.V. VIJAYAN -- 1930-2005
Spiritual outsider
Novelist and cartoonist O.V. Vijayan encountered the incomprehensible meaninglessness of his times with an outward silence and inward alertness.
Publishing Books

PUBLISHING
The essence of blogging
The blog is the Web's potential realised, feels KIRAN JONNALAGADDA

Literature

IN THE NEWS
Exploring silence
Kannada has had a rich tradition of little magazines. The latest, Deshakaala, may just become the catalyst for new literary movements, says S. DIWAKAR

Interview

INTERVIEW
Beauty in our midst
John Lane feels consumerist societies are losing their links to a rich, mythological cosmos.

People

PERSPECTIVE
My name is Pamuk
Like his city and his country, Pamuk's works touch upon the dialectics of a double heritage.


TRIBUTE
Restless poet
B.C. Ramachandra Sharma's poetry was path-breaking.
PROFILE
Voice of an era
C.D. Narasimhaiah influenced the way a whole generation of students read, responded and critiqued English texts.
DALIT LITERATURE
Celebrating protest
Namdeo Dhasal was a pioneering poet, who inspired an entirely different literary imagination.

Columns

BOOKWATCH
Victim of prejudice
ONE of the first things that Iftikar Gilani — the Delhi bureau chief of the Jammu-based daily, Kashmir Times — did after his release from prison was pen his experience of being hauled up by the authorities in the middle of the ...
CLASSICS REVISITED
Guy next door
Dangling Man, Saul Bellow, first published 1944, Penguin paperback, £4.99. It is with private disorder and public bewilderment that we try to live. We stand open to all anxieties. The decline and fall of everything is our daily ...
DIFFERENT REGISTERS
Songs of a mystic
VIOLENCE against women has to be dealt with in many different ways by individuals and groups. Some women's groups have been regularly organising workshops and campaigns on this issue so that the issue and its urgency is not forgotten. Akshara ...
First Impressions
WHEN Paul Tomm, a fresher on the staff of a newspaper in a small town, is sent to investigate the death of a Russian professor, little does he realise the consequences of hisqueries. Asked to write an obituary for the deceased, Tomm finds ...
ENDPAPER
The unlived life
THE book I return to again and again is Isak Dinessen's Babette's Feast. Dinessen wrote this long short story in English when she was 65 years old. Having read it probably nine times over the years, I am as broken up by it as I was the ...
WORDSPEAK
Five-star confusion
IN reply to my ignorance about the meaning of "five-star activists" in last month's "Wordspeak", readers responded in a variety of ways: These are the rantings of people from the upper middle class, who hold conventions on human rights, ...

Book Review

BIOGRAPHY
Versatile pioneer
Through this biography Sita Anantha Raman reclaims a humanist space for Madhaviah, says SELINE AUGUSTINE
LANGUAGE
Who needs Phoenician?
"I can't think of a volume that has better interpreted the linguistic history of Eurasia, from Sumerian onwards, or of the entire world in the post-Columbian era."
GENDER STUDIES
Untold stories
Coming out of Partition is a significant addition to the lean corpus of analytical studies on the Partition vis-à-vis the eastern border.
POETRY
The fleeting moment
Amit Chaudhuri, in his poetry and fiction, celebrates the ordinary.
ART
In search of the self
This catalogue lends us insights into an unusual life.
FICTION
Buddha in a new light
The Buddha emerges a more rounded figure in this reinterpretation, says R. KRITHIKA
SHORT FICTION
Encouraging new talent
The stories in the collection is a good indication of the great potential out there, writes NIMI KURIAN


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