Issue 15, Sep-Oct 2007 


Regular Sections

 ARTICLES/INTERVIEW

“A great poem should haunt us and every time you reread it you should discover a new meaning. You don’t cross the same river twice and you don’t read the same poem again,” says U R Ananthamurthy, the eminent writer, in a discussion with Manu Dash.

U R Ananthamurthy: In Conversation with Manu Dash
Chittaranjan Mishra: Silencing Rites in Pinter’s Plays
R K Singh: Sri Aurobindo's Poetics

 

    BOOK REVIEWS...
Reviewing Ranu Uniyal’s book of poetry Across the Divide, writes Ambika Ananth, “The equanimity, sensitivity and levity, the intensity, depth and force of some poems defy the fact that it is the poet's debut collection.”



Ambika Ananth: Ranu Uniyal’s Book of Poetry
R N Kaul: Bimla Raina’s book in translation

    FICTION...

Read Dalpat Chauhan’s engaging Gujarati Play The Bread and the Dead, translated by PJ Soni, where the dilemma between hunger and humaneness gets settled in favour of the bread.

Dalpat Chauhan: The Bread and the Dead
Gautam Nadkarni: End of the Rainbow
P Raja: Pousse-Pousse
Sanjukta Dasgupta: Mrs Duttaray

    POEMS...
“As I desolately count each passing hour / I become that moon-gazing bird on new moon nights / I sing the saddest songs of all time, I never ask questions ..”Meena Kandasamy

Ambika Ananth: Editor’s Choice from Your Space
H Balakrishnan
Mahendra Bhatnagar
Makhdoom Mohiuddin
Meena Kandasamy
Naina Dey
Rebba Singh
Sahir Ludhianvi
Satchidanandan K