Month: February 2014
Channeling Pablo Neruda
Channeling Pablo Neruda by Manjul Bajaj (India) I want to do with you what Pablo Neruda does with words Lay you down with precise and controlled violence amid images of a flagrant spring Wait! Make that a wanton monsoon with winds strong enough to tear off your shirt better still strip you down to nothing […]
The Blind Man’s Garden – Nadeem Aslam
?An artist is never poor?, he says almost reassuring the audience. ?He says an artist should never lose heart.? Not alluding, stating it quite blatantly and buoyantly – Hope is tragic, as well. ?Despair has to be earned?, he concludes to a standing ovation as he leaves the stage.
Borrowed by – o ?My next book is a linguistic autobiography ? my process of learning Italian?
“Clearly, human life was not easy, peppered with bonds of love, laced with a tug of war between trust and vanity.” ?He says reading novels by non-English writers changes his perspective of a country, like reading??Things Fall Apart??by Chinua Achebe changed his perception of colonizers and the colonized. Jonathan Franzen agrees and adds that,??the worst […]
Why Working Hard Is Not Good Enough?
Classic Of The Month: Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte, Joyce Carol Oates
The book is an antecedent to many modern individual-centric, coming-of-age and romance novels, and is a must-read classic even today.
“She took off h…
“She took off her nightgown, stepped to the window, sighed deeply and said: “The mind is the origin of all meaning. I mean what I say. Words in themselves are empty.” He lit a cigarette and admired her naked body which was illuminated by silver moonlight”
So, Do You Need Modi?
So, Do You Need Modi? The pepper spray constituency would have normally laughed away a man who endorsed such a product, worse a man who is accused of being responsible for riots in which thousands died, or were maimed or destroyed in other ways. Yet, Modi is rising in stature among them, as he is […]
The rewards and confusion of being a broadminded Indian
The rewards and confusion of being a broadminded Indian A peculiar nature of the liberal condition is that you must believe in many dissimilar things. You must believe that the world is warming, that a dam is the architecture of evil, capitalism is a disease, your wife has to be liberated (further), the Indian army […]
Restless women
I guess I have always been deeply terrified?at?to really be someone?s wife since I know from life one cannot love another, ever, really An extract from -?http://randomhouseindia.wordpress.com/2014/01/18/restless-women/ The moral of their books is ?If I can do it, anyone can,? Cheryl says.??So much of writing is to make sense of what it is to be […]