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FOCUS: LITERATURES OF ASSAM |
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FEATURE: INDIAN HAIKU |
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ARTICLE/DISCUSSIONS |
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"We are all beginning to resemble each other more and more, in our jeans and T shirts. If the Senegalese, the Chinese and the Indians do not retain their identities and cultures then what would they have to give to the world?" asks Senegalese poet
Amadou Lamine Sall in his interaction with Uma Sridhar.
The senior poet-scholar of Orissa J P Das talks to Manu Dash and Usha Akella converses with G S P Rao in the other engagements with writers. Also read V V B Rama Rao’s tribute to the late Telugu writer Ajanta.
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BOOK REVIEWS... |
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Masoodul Hasan writes, reviewing K L Chowdhury's Enchanting World of
Infants, "Children's poetry is usually impersonal - nameless children - Wordsworth's Lucy excluded. But Chowdhury's infant trio - Nausheen, Aditya and Shereen - are real, specific entities."
Also read Ambika Ananth’s absorbing review of Basavaraj Puranik’s The Artists of Inner Life.
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FICTION... |
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Rumjhum Biswas's story traces the emotions of a young woman visiting her childhood home in Bangladesh in search of memories.
The section also offers enjoyable fiction from the pens of Anand Mahajan, Gautam Nadkarni, Jayant Dalal and the US based
Sudha Balagopal.
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POEMS... |
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Hear Alaka Yeravadekar's young and fresh voice:
If we met …/…
waves would glide / in mellow light, / and gentle rain / soften the night?
…. if we but met…
Read delightful poems of Ekram Ali, Karthik Venkatesh, Kiran
Yele, Navkirat Sodhi, Sankar Roy, Santosh Alex, Satish Verma, Shaleen Kumar Singh, Srividya Sivakumar and
Thampi Jayasingh. Also presented are Ambika Ananth’s selections from
Your Space.
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