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Focus – Malayalam Literature

Feature - Cinematic Adaptations of Indian
Literary Texts

GALLERY

UK-based Gorima Basu is a young artist making a mark as a promising painter in the UK. She has participated in several art-shows there. She carries the sunshine and vivid colours of rural India in her paintings. In the Gallery, view her watercolours and acrylics that capture the cheer of nature.

ARTICLES / DISCUSSIONS

Writing about Earthen Pots, Basavaraj Naikar writes, “Meghani is a master of Gujarati prose. It is he who has proved more effectively and successfully than anyone else the power of the language of the soil and given to Gujarati literature varied, fresh and lovely similes … His depiction of the criminal psyche of the people is of special interest to criminologists and criminal psychologists and brings to our mind the criminal world of Dostoevsky.”

In this section, also read essays by G A Ghanshyam and Khurshid Alam. Paying tribute to the late Hyderabadi poet Mazher Mehdi is Elizabeth Kurian.

BOOK REVIEWS...

Reviewing Nandan Nilekani’s seminal work Imagining India, Ambika Ananth writes, “His ideas and thoughts reflect the deep socio-political wisdom and justice with which he foresees the growth of India. The forward moves he suggests are full of reason, full of energy and are highly pro-active. The optimistic tone he adopts right through rings in baritone, even when one turns an adamantine deaf ear of pessimism and defeat.”

The section also offers reviews of Sunetra Gupta’s novel So Good in Black by Amit Shankar Saha, K K Srivastava’s collection of poems An Armless Hand Writes by P K Mazumder and Contemporary Indian English Poetry (editors P Raja and Rita Nath Kesari) by T Sarada.

FICTION...

The noted Telugu writer H R K deals with the scourge of blind-beliefs and superstition that still hold sway in our villages. In his inimitable simple style, he narrates the story of Malamma, a young girl, whose married life is destroyed due to this.

Latika Mangrulkar’s story deals with yet another aspect of a strong Indian tradition, that of married woman wearing Mangalasutra, and an interesting tale surrounding it.

The humdrum life of a spinster, with its undercurrents of melancholy, is the theme of Nishi Pulugurtha’s short narration.

POEMS...

Read Roxana Cazan’s delightful poems on Indian themes. In “Bridal Henna” she writes-

His dark glance will roil each bit of my skin
Like you, henna, the roots she (henna painter) makes,
Some dangling leaves, the tongues of letters,
And oh, the blessed almond eye.

AHS Ahmed, Chittaranjan Mishra, Dibyendu Ghosal, Gargi Bhattacharya, Lakshmi Kannan, Nikesh Murali, Ramesh K, Sujay Kantawala and Tejinder Sharma are the other poets featured. Ambika Ananth presents selections from “Your Space”.