Issue 17, Jan-Feb 2008 


Regular Sections

 ARTICLE/DISCUSSIONS

"We are all beginning to resemble each other more and more, in our jeans and T shirts. If the Senegalese, the Chinese and the Indians do not retain their identities and cultures then what would they have to give to the world?" asks Senegalese poet Amadou Lamine Sall in his interaction with Uma Sridhar.
Amadou Lamine Sall – Interaction with Uma Sridhar
J P Das - In Conversation with Manu Dash
Usha Akella – In Discussion with G S P Rao
V V B Rama Rao – Remembering Ajanta





    BOOK REVIEWS...
Masoodul Hasan writes, reviewing K L Chowdhury's Enchanting World of Infants, "Children's poetry is usually impersonal - nameless children - Wordsworth's Lucy excluded. But Chowdhury's infant trio - Nausheen, Aditya and Shereen - are real, specific entities."
Ambika Ananth - “The Artists of Inner Life”
Masood-ul Hasan - “Enchanting World of Infants”

    FICTION...


    POEMS...
Hear Alaka Yeravadekar's young and fresh voice:

If we met …/…
waves would glide / in mellow light, / and gentle rain / soften the night?
…. if we but met…
Ambika Ananth – Selections from Your Space
Alaka Yeravadekar
Ekram Ali
Karthik Venkatesh
Kiran Yele
Navkirat Sodhi
Sankar Roy
Santosh Alex (Translations)
Satish Verma
Shaleen Kumar Singh
Srividya Sivakumar
Thampi Jayasingh