Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi who works and lives in a village in north Goa has won many awards for his writing, like the Betty Trask Award, UK, and the Premio Grinzane Cavour in Italy. He has been shortlisted for the Man Asian Prize for his novel The Lost Flamingoes of Bombay.
Through Amit’s experiences with Pokey, the author highlights that having a pet demands patience and involves responsibilities. From badly wanting a pup at home to wishing it leaves their home soon to embracing it wholeheartedly, Amit comes a full circle at the end.
Having dedicated six years of painstaking labour in compiling this book, authors Chaudhary and Kumar must be applauded for the outcome.
The fourth part showcases the contemporary concerns which colour the modern adaptations of the Mahābhārata.The Bengali intellectual Bankimchandra Chattopadhyaya, for instance, tried to weed out the interpolations to construct the Mahābhārata’s Kṛṣṇa as an ideal man and Hindu national icon. However, Ahona Panda notes how this pseudo-historical project
Despite a slightly rambling style and loose prose of the book, exhaustive research is evident emanating from a passion that rebuked any naked manipulation of knowledge. We gain well from the author’s efforts in presenting information on this crucial period of deep histories
That teenaged girl was Shaiza Khan, the year was 1988; much of Puthran’s book is about her determination in the face of tremendous cultural, social and political opposition to make space for girls to not only play cricket but take it to a professional level.