Words are like human beings. Behind every living word there are many dead words.’Theeyoor Chronicles deals primarily with the resilience of human beings in different situations to a certain extent and those who seek refuge in death when they are unable to do so…
Kadambari: The Flower Girl by Sethu is a work that surprised me on two primary counts. The first is that it is a self-translation, perhaps Sethu’s first attempt. It was originally published in Malayalam as Aaramathe Penkutty (2006). Self-translations are rarely attempted in Malayalam…
The last couple of years have seen a quantum leap in terms of the sheer number and range of books being translated from Indian regional languages into English. While there has been a healthy market for bhasha translations of English works, the process
Letters to Jorina is a collection of eleven letters written by Alok Das, a University Professor from Odisha, to his woman friend Jorina McCarthy, a Guyanese settled in England. The book records Alok’s observations and reflections on home and abroad…
This is one of those books that puts a reviewer in a dilemma. It is so promising in its design and intent that one is tempted to characterize it as a near classic, but in its execution it leaves one dissatisfied. Of course, to say this is not to criticize the book, but merely to suggest the level that the book could have attained…
Writers are not known to have taken to Pills, not yet. In any case, since males dominate the world of writing, proliferation of books cannot be stopped by any known oral contraceptives. Proliferation of books is certainly better than proliferation of weapons and conflicts. All books are not as stale as airlines food…