It is an enormous pleasure today to be able to welcome the Sahitya Akademi Awardee, Rashmi Narzary, as a Columnist for our community.
I am particularly delighted that she is our first woman Columnist. The word has been out for some time that we’ve been looking for at least one Columnist who is a woman, and we look forward to welcoming more woman Columnists.
I am of course delighted that Ms Narzary has chosen to open with a review of Dr Varghese Mathai’s The Village Maestro & 100 Other Stories.
However, she has a wide mandate. In fact, she is free to cast her net as wide as she wishes. Indeed, so can each Columnist at our website. There is no censorship of their views, and no limitation of word-length, or requirement regarding frequency.
You can look forward, therefore, to reading her reviews of different kinds of books, and she may perhaps tackle related literary, cultural, and even social matters. All that is entirely up to her.
And if you wish to find information on Ms Narzary, you will see it under the Authors tab on the Home Page of this website.
Do respond to her column, as well as to other columnists, with your comments, questions, observations, suggestions, stories, jokes, and – why not? – even cartoons.
Meanwhile, enjoy the quality of her writing, the perceptiveness of her judgments, and the range of her thoughts.
Dear Rashmi, you are of course a star. But now you have your own platform. I’m sure you’ll be an even greater star.
