In a free-wheeling discussion with Jaydeep Sarangi on her work, the noted Oriya writer
Sarojini Sahoo says, “Unless a writer has entered into a character, he/she could not write about that character. The writer has to live inside the character and has to see the other from his side. So, in a sense, you can feel my presence, my feelings, and my experiences in my writings but on the other hand, they are never mine; they couldn’t be mine.”
Reviewing This Gift of English, A Giridhar Rao writes, “In (British-)colonial and postcolonial India, English has been a critical “social and symbolic capital” in consolidating and challenging “hegemonies” – in arguing this, Alok Mukherjee's new book joins the already quite substantial body of writing on the place and role of English in India.”
The Flight is the story of a twenty-seven year old girl locked up in a hospital…only to be rudely and inhumanly treated…ostracized by society and given up by parents…see how it unfolds in the hands of her narrator
Megha Subramanian…
Read young, talented Shikha Gupta’s simple and charming poems. On the agonies left behind by Kargil war, she writes of a grieving mother – When she lost three sons, oh so fine / In the year of nineteen ninety nine.
A sense of pride and sadness, still / Echoes loud, through memories of Kargil!
