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EYECATCHERSSeeking The Beloved; Shah Abdul Latif, Translated by Anju Makhija and Hari Dilgir, Katha, Rs. 295. Known as one of the greatest Sufi works in history and written more than 250 years ago, Latif's poetry is deeply rooted in the human ...
FACE TO FACE Healing with languages Scholar and peace activist David Shulman spends more time in the 16th century than he does in the 21st.
TRIBUTE The comet moves on P.G. Sunderarajan (Chitti), who died on June 23, was the last of the Renaissance men of Tamil literature.
CLASSICS REVISITED 
Political satire at its bestSentimental Education, Gustave Flaubert, Penguin Classics, 2004 edition, Special Indian Price, £6.30. Other editions are also available. Never again will a single story be told as though it's the only ... SECOND THOUGHTS Water, stone and sky St. Petersburg was not just a city that Peter built; it was a powerful civilisational statement. 
FIRST IMPRESSIONSA Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian; Marina Lewycka; Penguin; £4.50. ONE look at the title and you might be tempted to put it aside. Don't make that mistake. Because here is a story that will leave you with a huge ... BOOKWATCH 
United by PartitionTrain to Pakistan: An Illustrated Edition, Khushwant Singh, Roli Books, Rs. 495. IT is a perfect fit: His prose and her photographs. One look at the illustrated edition of Khushwant Singh's Train to Pakistan and it ... 
Chauri Chaura: Not just murdr'n mayhemEvent, Metaphor, Memory: Chauri Chaura 1922-1992, Shahid Amin, Penguin, Rs. 295. BY virtue of derailing the Non-Cooperation Movement called by Mahatma Gandhi, the sleepy East Uttar Pradesh hamlet of Chauri Chaura secured ... 
Gay abandonIndia Smiles: Winning Entries from the Sulekha.com Humour Contest, Penguin, Rs. 195. THE last week of July brought into television homes images of two girls and a lad straying into the fortified Prime Minister's ... ENDPAPER Comic strip revolution Large and dazzling and varied in form, graphic novels are obviously here to stay. WORDSPEAK Changing forms of news The unstructured narrative style of today's blogs actually hark back to the news reporting of the 1960s.
Subterranean worlds The book paints a harsh landscape where men and women jostle, kill, cajole, rave, rant and shout for power. FICTION Of elusive truth Letters for Paul is a layered narrative that emphasises the difficulty of arriving at a single explanation. SHORT FICTION Mixing up time and space Vilas Sarang's stories are a delectable mix of Orwell and Dali. POETRY Lyrical simplicity O.N.V. Kurup has the uncanny gift to draw out the hidden music in words without distorting meaning. TRANSLATION A touch of the mystical A striking feature of La.Sa.Ra.'s writing is his characterisation. CRITICISM A systematic history This book is comprehensive, spanning 2,000 years of Western critical thought. FICTION Voice for the voiceless The double dispossession and colonisation of native women is presented through the eyes of women writers. FICTION Range of emotions Interesting tales that are also light reading. FICTION Peeling the identity onion A journalist's take on the elusive nature of identity and the pitfalls of pigeonholing people. Short and searing Like his novels, Mulk Raj Anand's short stories too focus on the plight of the marginalised and the downtrodden. FICTION Historical romance A highly readable translation of a story from early Oriya fiction. |
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