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Author Archives: Thebookreviewindia

Beaming the Message Large and Clear

Volume XXXI No. 3 - MARCH 2007By ThebookreviewindiaNovember 16, 2017Leave a comment

The poster, by its very definition, is an ephemeral product, and has only recently acquired the status of popular art. Tracing its history in a long essay entitled ‘Posters: Advertisement, Art, Political Artifact, Commodity’, Susan Sontag differentiates between the political poster and that used for advertising and attracting consumers to particular goods.

Food Discourse

Volume XXXI No. 3 - MARCH 2007By ThebookreviewindiaNovember 16, 2017Leave a comment

Inspired by A.K. Ramanujan’s essay ‘Food for thought’, the present anthology of South Asian Food Writing was whipped up to respond in part to fulfil his desire for a more diachronic study of food discourse though not trying to provide ‘the social history’ that he craved for.

Love Minus Sex

Volume XXXI No. 3 - MARCH 2007By ThebookreviewindiaNovember 15, 2017Leave a comment

Samrat Upadhyay, a Nepali author who went to the US at the age of 21 and who has been living there ever since, first studying and then teaching creative writing at various universities, hit big on the international literary scene with his debut Arresting God in Kathmandu, in 2001.

Mixed Fare

Volume XXXI No. 3 - MARCH 2007By ThebookreviewindiaNovember 15, 2017Leave a comment

The second volume of Penguin’s annual anthology of new writing from India which came out in 2006 showcases a range of exciting and original work. It certainly introduces ‘new writing’ although not necessarily new writers—many of the contributors appear to be established writers with several literary awards to their credit.

A Sensitive Rendering

Volume XXXI No. 3 - MARCH 2007By ThebookreviewindiaNovember 15, 2017Leave a comment

I read Moni Mohsin’s The End of Innocence at one sitting. This debut novel is a sensitive rendering of a childhood friendship between two young girls in Pakistan, from different social realms.

The Voice of a Bygone Century

Volume XXXI No. 3 - MARCH 2007By ThebookreviewindiaNovember 15, 2017Leave a comment

Of the many voices to come out of the subcontinent in the last century, Faiz Ahmed Faiz’s (1911-1984) is perhaps the strongest. He has been described as many things—the misunderstood Marxist, the compassionate humanist, an irresistible charmer and of course the revolutionary poet. Faiz’s poetry lives on,

A Seasoned Offering

Volume XXXI No. 3 - MARCH 2007By ThebookreviewindiaNovember 15, 2017Leave a comment

Curled in the end lies a beginning and in every beginning lies the end of something old. Never is this truer than in the case of countries that are born after prolonged periods of parturition or when they are hived out of old nation states after much blood has been shed.

Questions of Identity and Nationality

Volume XXXI No. 3 - MARCH 2007By ThebookreviewindiaNovember 15, 2017Leave a comment

Pichhwa the wrestler—a character from Intizar Husain’s classic An Unwritten Epic—a larger than life, fearless, action hero who has fended off a Jat attack on his UP village Qadirpur, receives the news of Pakistan’s formation with an ‘immense chill’.

The Persistence of Memory

Volume XXXI No. 3 - MARCH 2007By ThebookreviewindiaNovember 15, 2017Leave a comment

The anthology edited by Smita Tewari Jassal and Eyal Ben-Ari brings together essays from varied disciplines including memory studies, social anthropology, sociology and literary criticism that come to terms with the partition motif in contemporary conflicts.

Subcontinental English Writers

Volume XXXI No. 3 - MARCH 2007By ThebookreviewindiaNovember 15, 2017Leave a comment

This is a welcome addition to the critical apparatus available on sub- continental English writers. South Asian writing is as usual an in- vention of the western academy, a convenient label that sub-continental critics can use to talk about issues that concern the nations of the region. However,

Politics of Critical Discourse

Volume XXXI No. 3 - MARCH 2007By ThebookreviewindiaNovember 15, 2017Leave a comment

When the (resident) Sri Lankan writer Nihal De Silva passed away, it was sad that few in India had heard of him let alone read the Gratiaen award winning book The Road from Elephant Pass. The few copies that did make their way outside the island nation were eagerly consumed, as supply was meagre.

Retrieving Hidden Jewels of the Sanskrit Deep

Volume XXXI No. 3 - MARCH 2007By ThebookreviewindiaNovember 15, 2017Leave a comment

The foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrade them, and the empire is no more. Empire follows art and not vice versa… (William Blake) In the great books of India, an empire spoke to us… (Emerson)

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