Of Books and the Reading Life – One Bangalorean’s Personal Journey

Of Books and the Reading Life

Cheriyan Alexander’s recollection from a personal journey of reading and collecting books

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More Real, than Magical

More Real, than Magical

#94616965 / gettyimages.com The Nobel Prize winning Colombian writer, Gabriel Garcia Marquez passed away on 17th April, 2014. Through his One Hundred Years of Solitude,…

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Updike & Down Gorge

Updike & Down Gorge

Let’s face it, we love this materialism we’re wrapped up into: the word has given ‘imitation’ a new meaning, allowing it to acquire additional shades…

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Nothing is Ever Really Lost: Time and Memory in Eudora Welty’s “Music From Spain”

Nothing is Ever Really Lost

Eudora Welty’s life and work share a fascination with memory and time. “Of course the greatest confluence of all,” Welty writes in her memoir One…

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Khushwant Singh: An Extraordinary Life

An Extraordinary Life

Soumitra Dasgupta pays tribute to Khushwant Singh

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The Desire of the Hysteric

The Desire of the Hysteric

Tanuj Solanki attempts a psychoanalytic reading of Roberto Bolano’s Amulet.

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The Golden Treasury

The Golden Treasury

Robert Boucheron takes the reader down memory lane to another peek into the trove of poetry, The Golden Treasury

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In His Footsteps: Banaphool

In His Footsteps

Maitreyee B. Choudhury reflects on Banaphool’s craft of storytelling

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Writers & "Truth Regimes"

Writers & “Truth Regimes”

Cheriyan Alexander writes about intolerant regimes that hound writers/artists from time to time and on the role of scriptures in the history of religious intolerance.

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Camus' Centenary: The Algerian Question

Camus’ Centenary: The Algerian Question

Part of series on Albert Camus, coinciding with his birth centenary celebrations.

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Alice Munro: In the Footsteps of Chekhov

Alice Munro: In the Footsteps of Chekhov

Arul Gaspar studies the works of 2013 Nobel prize winning writer, Alice Munro, in relation to the works of master storyteller, Anton Chekhov.

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Camus' Centenary: The Eternal Rebel

Camus’ Centenary: The Eternal Rebel

Part of series on Albert Camus, coinciding with his birth centenary celebrations.

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Bearing Witness to History - A Reflection on two Eastern European poets

Bearing Witness to History: Czeslaw Milosz

Cheriyan Alexander writes on East-European poetry, with focus on Czeslaw Milosz and Vasko Popa.

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Why Maya Angelou

Why Maya Angelou

Arul Gaspar elucidates on Maya Angelou and her writing

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Shakespeare of Rajasthan

Shakespeare of Rajasthan

Mohit Parikh throws light on the works of Vijaydan Detha, also known as the Shakespeare of Rajasthan.

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