Whether or not it is correct to term George Abraham Grierson’s 21-volume Linguistic Survey of India (produced over more than three decades: 1894-1927) ‘monumental’ is a query that Majeed’s set of two volumes seems to propose as key for studying.
This cracker of a debut novel opens with a house on fire—La Kay, a house that is one of the protagonists, a sentient house, that is actually attempting to commit suicide. The house has had enough of its ‘owner’ Lucien, an immigrant from Haiti who had moved.
The year is 2041. A huge fortress named Bombadrome, 500 sq. km in an area housing thirty million people stands against a towering sea wall on the soil of erstwhile Bom Bahia, Bombay or Mumbai. Equipped with the finest transport network, efficient.
Bharti Arora’s book is an analysis of eleven novels written by women in different Indian languages from 1950 to the mid-1990s. It draws from historical and sociological scholarship and policy reports to develop a framework to draw attention to the socially.
Womankind must keep walking to stay a matter of safe routine. Standing still made one the object of prying eyes.It is the act of standing still that reverberates throughout the novel in diverse ways and takes on new meanings in every turn of the page in the novel.
The first Kannada novel, Indira Bai or The Triumph of Truth and Virtue, has been recently translated into English, for the second time, by Vanamala Viswanatha and Shivarama Padikkal. Originally published by the Basel Mission Press, Mangalore, in 1899.