Ram Sharma says of the Nobel Prize Winning author: “Pinter is one of the few writers to have an adjective—Pinteresque—named for him. This paper attempts to map out the dialectic of ‘Pinteresque’ and its various contours in Pinter’s early play The Room.”
Reviewing Amitav Ghosh’s Sea of Poppies, Sakoon Singh writes, “His early association with the Subaltern Studies group has always induced him to speak from the vantage point of the historically marginalised. However the great thing about him is that he does not let this get in his way of telling a good story and telling it so well.”
Barnali Saha’s “Born into a Brothel,” poignantly depicts life of young Gopal, who grows up in the repugnant, gloomy atmosphere of a brothel where his mother is a tart. Deep emotional scars of his boyhood years find cathartic expression when he grows up.
Robert Bohm has spent considerable time, over past 40 years, living near Belgaum in India. His anthology of poems written during this period awaits publication. His poetry is replete with vignettes of rural India:
Where the water buffalos bathe in the pond just south /
of the Ganpati temple / and in late afternoon /
the banyans’ shadows enter / roadside gullies
