E.V. Ramakrishnan
Whenever I think of Indian literature, a story retold by A.K.Ramanujan comes to mind: Hanuman reaches the nether-world in search of Rama’s ring that had disappeared through a hole.
Reviewed by: K. Satchidanandan
Anne F. Broadbridge
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2014
2014
A heart-wrenching account of a child who gets trapped in a flesh trade circle and her relentless struggle to get out of it, Prem Nagar is much more than a work of fiction.
Reviewed by: Sampurna Dutta
Ranjani Neriya
These lines from the opening poem, titled ‘Episcope’, instantly give the reader a sense of richness of words and images that the volume under review abounds in. Poem after poem, Ranjani Neriya weaves an intricate tapestry of myriad images, metaphors and vivid visual verse pictures in a tirelessly flowing stream of sonorous sounds and fecund expressions.
Reviewed by: Nishat Zaidi
Shyam Selvadurai
Shyam Selvadurai, who has edited Many Roads Through Paradise, an anthology of Sri Lankan writers is a writer of acclaim, and has published several books, many of which have won prestigious awards.
Reviewed by: Indu Mallah
Ratna Vira
My narrative will not be your’s. I will live my life. You have to live with your demons.
Daughter by Court Order
In a country like India, it is still the norm in many parts of the country to cut women off from all aspects of family decision making processes, or even from decisions involving their own lives—marriage, family planning etc.
Reviewed by: Madhumita Chakraborty
Bidyut Chakrabarty
Bidyut Chakrabarty sees the mass uprisings of 2011 in West Asia as reconfirmation of the relevance of nonviolence. Barely three years after the exhilarating successes of the Arab Spring, however, nonviolence is far from the minds of the numerous factions engaged in seemingly interminable conflict for control of those troubled lands.
Reviewed by: Govindan Nair