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In a free-wheeling chat with Ambika Ananth in Bangalore, Keki Daruwalla talks of the challenges facing Indian English poetry and other issues. Says he, “Getting the reading public to take to poetry would be the first challenge. Secondly, the English poets are criticised for not relating to contemporary reality, as they should and they are sniped at by Indian language poets. And …….”
Also listen to the other conversation the noted Oriya writer, Ramakanta Rath had with Manu Dash, in the section.
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Keki Daruwala: In Conversation with Ambika Ananth
Ramakanta Rath: In Conversation with Manu Dash
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BOOK REVIEWS... |
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“The pumping heart of the novel or the tale’s emotional centre is powered by a superb language—assured and eloquent, supple and elegant. With her deft touch the author has manipulated the intersecting fragments of loss into a poignant story of our mixed-up times.” So writes Dr Murari Prasad on Kiran Desai’s Booker winning novel “The Inheritance of Loss”.
Read yet another engaging review by Prof R K Singh in the section …
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Murari Prasad : Kiran Desai’s “The Inheritance of Loss”
R K Singh : P Raja’s “Love Teaches…”
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FICTION... |
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“The same thing happened to me, mother. I thought that only my death would destroy Basaviah. So I left everything one day and went on my way. A few days after I had left, Basaviah expired. He didn’t have a reason to live anymore … After he died I forgot all the ballads; a famous man that I was, became nothing. Thus I avenged.”
Read the story of human passions and how they undo lives in this simple, yet effective fiction of the well-known Kannada writer, Late P Lankesh in Ankur Betageri’s translation. The section offers other interesting tales …
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Lankesh P : “The Man on the Farm”
Gautam Nadkarni : “The Artistic Temperament”
Malathi Nidadavolu : “Grading an LCTL Learner”
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POEMS... |
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