Books from a publisher *other* than me, recommended for your reading
Since the first translation of the Bhagavad Gita in 1789 by Charles Wilkins, there have been hundreds of translations into English. Some have translated the poetry of the Gita into prose, and some others have attempted metrical poetry. Whereas prose translations do not convey the delights of the original, good metrical translations have no choice […]
Michelle Mendonca Bambawale’s just-published book ‘Becoming Goan’ (Ebury-Penguin, 2023) is a story told at three levels. First, it is the story of a return to Goa by a daughter of the soil whose family has been out for generations. Secondly, it tells you about the rapid (sometimes destructive) changes Goa has been going through, as
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Author(s): Michael Mitchell Publication date Pub: 22 December 2022 Journal: Journal of Indentureship and Its Legacies Publisher: Pluto Journals Though much has been made of the fact that Silent Winds, Dry Seas is the first Anglophone novel from Mauritius to have achieved wide circulation, readers of Caribbean fiction will be struck by an impression of familiarity. The reason is not hard to
Vinod Busjeet, Silent Winds, Dry Seas (New York: Doubleday, 2021), 288 pp Read More »
Salt & Pepper. Selected Poems. Sukrita. Paperwall Publishing. April 2023. 196 pages. The latest anthology of Sukrita’s poems Salt and Pepper traverses the poet’s momentous journey of nearly four decades. The poems bring us to a world not altogether unfamiliar— but a world imbued with a sensibility that is fine, complex and aesthetically profound at
AUTHOR: Sujan Dutta Professor Ali. Captain Ali. Whatever the name, the man was the same. Parimal Kumar Ghosh. He died in the national capital recently (July 6). He was 84 years old and was ailing. In his death, he has given life to Ushinor Majumdar’s just published book. The life of the book is not
Ushinor Majumdar’s ‘India’s Secret War’: BSF’s exploits in the run-up to 1971 war Read More »
AUTHOR: Rita Kakati-Shah Rita Kakati-Shah navigates the reader through the complexities of diversity, inclusivity and related topics in THE GODDESS OF GO-GETTING, drawing upon her extensive experience in the corporate world and in life. Rita Kakati-Shah navigates the reader through the complexities of diversity, inclusivity, and related topics in THE GODDESS OF GO-GETTING, drawing upon
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Book review: No Land’s People indicts India’s NRC process Indian journalist Abhishek Saha documents how the citizenship determination process in Assam state was marred by ‘bias and arbitrariness’. India’s northeastern state of Assam drew the attention of international media in August 2019, when a citizens’ register excluded nearly two million residents, effectively rendering them stateless. The National
It would be difficult to estimate the number of plates of Hakka noodles consumed in India, but it would be safe to assume that the number would be large. This in sharp contrast to the number of Indians of Chinese origin who remain in India. The majority of them belong to the Hakka community from
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by Shobha Tharoor Srinivasan Penguin Viking, India, 2022 We Indians must have one of the strongest traditions in the world of respect for older folk. I am from the generation where we touched my parents’ feet every morning. Indeed, even now, by way of greeting me on first meeting after any length of time,
Good Innings: The Extraordinary Ordinary Life of Lily Tharoor Read More »
