TBR Recommends - August 2013

TBR Recommends – August 2013

Every month, The Bangalore Review recommends a reading list, also mentioning in brief why each book must be read.

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Shooting an Elephant by George Orwell

Shooting an Elephant by George Orwell

Every month, The Reading Room showcases a short story, or excerpts of a book, from some of the greatest writers the world has ever seen.

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Proust and Art: Substance is Style

Proust and Art

Sudeep Reguna discusses the interpretation of art as seen through Marcel Proust’s “In Search of Lost Time”

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James Joyce’s Bildungsroman - A Portrait of The Artist as a Young Man

James Joyce’s Bildungsroman

Arvind Radhakrishnan looks into “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man”, the novel that changed him, “perhaps forever”

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Amir Khusro & His Influence on Indian Classical Music

Amir Khusro & His Influence on Indian Classical Music

Abhik Majumdar studies the influence the 14th century mystic had on Indian Classical Music, some of which have stood the test of time.

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Living before Everything else

Living before Everything else

Suhail Rasheed writes about his experience at a barber shop in Kerala

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A Landscape without Windows: An Overview of Feminist Translation in Nicole Brossard

A Landscape without Windows

Sushma Murthy studies the representation of feminism in language and translations, through the works of Nicole Brossard

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TBR Recommends - July 2013

TBR Recommends – July 2013

Every month, The Bangalore Review recommends a reading list, also mentioning in brief why each book must be read.

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Overseasoned by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Overseasoned by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Every month, The Reading Room showcases a short story, or excerpts of a book, from some of the greatest writers the world has ever seen.

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The Cobbler and The Eagle

The Cobbler and The Eagle

The golden-breasted eagle’s home was at such heights that she had to dive several hundred metres to get to work. From her abode on the…

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Silent Night, Holy Night

Silent Night, Holy Night

We fold mistakes like clothes,
keeping them alive for another day.
Errors turn into kettle-fossils.

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Those Silver Anklets

Those Silver Anklets

It was one of those times in my life, when I actually had the time to pause and take an account of what my life…

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L-I-F-E I-S A C-L-I-M-B

L-I-F-E I-S A C-L-I-M-B

Roshni Menon shares a poem that is also an acrostic reflecting on life.

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Remember that Boy

Remember that Boy

Remember his eyes, that lacked in shine
Remember his dreams, that were broken with time.

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Painter as Documenter – Van Eyck’s Revolutionary Arnolfini Marriage of 1434

Painter as Documenter

Cheriyan Alexander observes Van Eyck’s masterpiece and ponders on the many meanings it holds.

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