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Book review: The Historian’s Daughter by Rashida Murphy

First published in Cafe Dissensus Title: The Historian’s Daughter Author: Rashida Murphy Publisher: UWA Publishing, 2016 The Historian’s Daughter could well have been titled The House of Secrets. Isn’t...

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Marrying the Road

First published in DNA One of my favourite Salil Chowdhury songs opens with the idea of submitting oneself to the call of the road. “Straight paths have riddled me long enough,” it says, as the singer...

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Book Review: Love and the Turning Seasons – India’s Poetry of Spiritual &...

I recently had the opportunity tot read “Love and the Turning Seasons,” an exquisite collection of bhakti poetry in translation from Aleph. I wrote about it in Kitaab. Title: Love and the Turning...

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A People Ravaged: Peeling off the Many Layers of Partition Trauma

First published in The Wire Literature, Gender, and the Trauma of Partition: The Paradox of Independence Debali Mookerjea-Leonard Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2017 In writing my first novel,...

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The Art of Solitude: In Rabindranath Tagore’s letters, the gifts of a life in...

First published in Scroll After a week of rain, hail and non-seasonal arctic chills, a balmy sunshine and a breeze carrying whispers of spring indulge us in the Southern Ontario suburb where I live...

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The Whore as a Metaphor for a City

Bombay Stories by Saadat Hasan Manto  Translated by Matt Reeck and Aftab Ahmad Vintage International First published in The Beacon Sudhir Pattwardhan. “Street Corner” 1985 Mention Saadat Hasan Manto’s...

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‘Jago Hua Savera’: Recalling a Cinematic Manifesto for the Dawn of Hope

First published in The Wire Night falls on a river. The village around it thickens with darkness. Not the river. On its breast, distant lights flicker like inextinguishable fireflies. The glow comes...

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Interview with Firstpost on ‘Victory Colony, 1950’

Chintan Girish Modi interviewed me about my debut novel. The most rewarding part of the interview was his reference to a blog post I wrote in 2011 regarding home and what it means for me. Read the...

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Victory Colony, 1950 in Electric Lit

Anjali Enjeti, the author of The Parted Earth, a new novel centred on the Partition of India, recommended Victory Colony, 1950 as part of 7 Books About the Partition of India and Pakistan.

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In remembrance: Somendranath Bandopadhyay

Somendranath Bandyopadhyay (1926-2022) Prof. Somendranath Bandyopadhyay taught Bengali Language and Literature in Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan during 1957–1991. His subject was mainly Rabindranath...

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