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Chandana Dutta and Abu Zahir Rabbani profile Joginder Paul and his legacy for Sahitya Akademi series on Makers Of Indian Literature. In the second book by Chandan Dutta she engages with Krishna Paul. Both reviewed by Ranjana Kaul.…[Read More]…
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In these two extracts from Land Lust, Joginder Paul traces the history of colonial Kenya through multiracial characters drawn with fine brushstrokes. The Slump translated by Chandana Dutta; Jambo Rafiqui by Usha Nagpal…[Read More]…
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Sukrita Paul Kumar introduces the reader to a forthcoming series on Indian writing, ‘Writer in Context’ she is co-editing with Chandana Dutta. The first two volumes, on Krishna Sobti and Joginder Paul respectively are out …[Read More]…
Literary Trails
A haunting story of gender, memory and longing amidst the trauma of the real and the comfort of imagined echoes; by Joginder Paul in this translation by Keerti Ramachandra.…[Read More]…
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Simple, yet deeply philosophical, the poems in this volume have the power to resonate with readers everywhere, an inherent universality that gives Sukrita’s poetry a timeless appeal.says Girija Sharma, yet inviting us to put on trial many a myth we have partly perpetuated in her review of Salt and Pepper. …[Read More]…
Between The Lines
Alok Bhalla looks back at Partition as “borders of sorrow” created by violence bred by intolerant religious identities. Partition literature however comes across differently: not as dossiers of hatreds but as chronicles of yearning for that “good civilization” that once was and could be. …[Read More]…
Between The Lines
Curated by Alok Bhalla, for The Beacon, ‘Asians in Africa’ offers glimpses of a diasporic existence as seen by various writers; experiences that carried the promise of belonging and the prospect of loss and flight. …[Read More]…
Why The Beacon? The Beacon is a web-based only feature magazine of writing and reading (long-form essays, fiction and poetry) that believes in confluences more than in consensus. The Beacon …[Read in full]…
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In conversation with Sukrita Paul Kumar, Urdu and Hindi writers discuss their art, modernity/tradition, the critic and much more. Extracts of her conversations with Qurratulain Hyder and Nirmal Verma. …[Read More]…
Literary Trails
A short story by Gangadhar Gadgil , of communal riots in a Mumbai chawl, profiles the rot within ordinary individuals, succumbing to the spectacle of mob violence, bigotry and predatory instincts in this translation from Marathi by Keerti Ramachandra. …[Read More]…
Literary Trails
In Asha Bage’s “Navas” Revati copes with the contending claims of modernity and tradition, memory and the present in this translation by Keerti Ramachandra. …[Read More]…