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Bricks of hate, cracked walls

Rockwell has now translated Shree’s earlier novel, Hamara Shahar Us Baras, which was originally published in 1998. Titled Our City That Year in English, the story is set in a nameless city where communal tensions are being fomented and polarisation slowly creeps across religious and class divides, eventually shattering close friendships and destroying lives.

27 October 2024, 02:37 IST

Bricks of hate, cracked walls

Bricks of hate, cracked walls

Bricks of hate, cracked walls

27 October 2024, 02:37 IST

Recounting the grit of the exile

For the Palestinian writer Ghassan Kanafani — who lived and died for his ideals (he was assassinated in 1972) — good fiction was that which didn’t adhere to some rigid ideological scheme.

12 October 2024, 23:51 IST

Recounting the grit of the exile

Recounting the grit of the exile

Recounting the grit of the exile

12 October 2024, 23:51 IST

Gazing at the ordinary with a poet's grace

Reading these essays and her larger body of work and seeing her enduring influence on contemporary writers ranging from Zadie Smith to Sally Rooney and Lisa Taddeo, it’s quite clear that Ginzburg could never have been a 'small writer'.

21 September 2024, 23:14 IST

Gazing at the ordinary with a poet's grace

Gazing at the ordinary with a poet's grace

Gazing at the ordinary with a poet's grace

21 September 2024, 23:14 IST

Listening to the silence

The politics of language in Tongueless find their physical form in the figure of Ling, the quick-witted and silver-tongued protagonist of the novel and one of the teachers at Sing Din school.

24 August 2024, 20:48 IST

Listening to the silence

Listening to the silence

Listening to the silence

24 August 2024, 20:48 IST

An idea whose time has come...

Raja Rao’s Kanthapura is a full-fledged political novel, with its intentions proclaimed proudly almost from the start. This is a novel about the awakening of India’s villages to Gandhi’s philosophies of self-reliance, non-violence and the spirit of unity to achieve the ultimate goal of an independent nation.

17 August 2024, 18:39 IST

An idea whose time has come...

An idea whose time has come...

An idea whose time has come...

17 August 2024, 18:39 IST

The many memories of hypocrisy

Hartley’s book underscores how the innocent always lose out when the privileged rewrite the rules of the social order they themselves have established, says Saudha Kasim

27 July 2024, 20:26 IST

The many memories of hypocrisy

The many memories of hypocrisy

The many memories of hypocrisy

27 July 2024, 20:26 IST

Portrait of a man 'almost wise'

In melding herself so closely to her subject such that she becomes his medium eighteen centuries later, Yourcenar accomplishes something extraordinary with the Memoirs Of Hadrian and has bestowed a gift to the reader of the '…portrait of a man who was almost wise.'

14 July 2024, 00:25 IST

Portrait of a man 'almost wise'

Portrait of a man 'almost wise'

Portrait of a man 'almost wise'

14 July 2024, 00:25 IST

A roiling beneath the veneer

Nadiya’s translation ably conveys the very specific sense of place and chaos of post-liberation Bangladesh through passages of text that are as poetic as they are bloody.

30 June 2024, 03:22 IST

A roiling beneath the veneer

A roiling beneath the veneer

A roiling beneath the veneer

30 June 2024, 03:22 IST

To be human and to be alive...

The essence of Segu’s power and glory was war — and Condé’s work, published originally in French as two separate volumes, examines its varying fortunes through the lives of one family and its descendants.

23 June 2024, 01:37 IST

To be human and to be alive...

To be human and to be alive...

To be human and to be alive...

23 June 2024, 01:37 IST

Memorable nods to love and brevity

Schelling, a North American poet, translator and teacher, has published several books of classical Sanskrit and Prakrit poetry, and in his words, the long-vanished worlds of these poems come alive in all their sensual glory.

01 June 2024, 20:12 IST

Memorable nods to love and brevity

Memorable nods to love and brevity

Memorable nods to love and brevity

01 June 2024, 20:12 IST