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IN CONVERSATION
Scripting change
Acclaimed Dalit novelist P. Sivakami talks about the trajectory of her journey from literature to activism to politics. Excerpts from an interview…



REFLECTIONS
Age and the fiction writer
Why is it that we are willing to grant young writers ‘potential’ but not ‘insight’?
Books


CLASSICS
On the threshold between prose and poetry
What Hermann Broch so poetically explores in The Death of Virgil is art, its promise of knowledge and its inevitable failure…


Forthcoming Events

Srinivas Rayaprol Poetry Prize 2009
Entries are invited from young poets in India writing in English for the inaugural Srinivas Rayaprol Poetry Prize. The Prize was instituted by the Srinivas Rayaprol Literary Trust to recognise excellence in poetry written in English and ...


Books

Eyecatchers
Journalist turned author Pinki Virani examines the crisis that underlies the façade of progressive modernity that is present-day through a set of characters you may have met. If not directly, then through the six degrees of separation ...


Essay


EXPERIENCE
Hazarding a translation
Poet and translator K.Srilatha writes about The Rapids experience – the intricate task of translating Tamil poems from across the ages.


Columns


SECOND THOUGHTS
Go East, young man
In The Razor’s Edge, Maugham foresaw that the West would one day come seeking the East.


ENDPAPER
Comic book capers
Amar Chitra Katha comics form a part of professor Karline McLain’s exploration of visual culture in modern India.


BOOK WATCH
Bharat still eclipsed


Bapu: Kid's pack


Fizz goes flat



Book Review


ANTHOLOGY
Re-imagining Pakistan
Various readings of Pakistan as a country in the light of its portrayal in Rushdie’s novels.


FICTION
Sound of silence
A quiet tale, gracefully told…


TRANSLATION
Metaphysical riddles
This collection of Neela Padmanabhan’s writing turns out be both frustrating and uneven.


VERSE
Words of wisdom
Optimistic and reassuring, Ashok Sawhny’s poems are an enjoyable read.


PHILOSOPHY
A labouring world
The book is both an elegy and epitaph for industrial civilisation.



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