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Darius Cooper does a deep reading of Booker prize winner Geetanjali Shree’s Tomb of Sand in translation by Daisy Rockwell and ends up with a lot of sand. …[Read More]…
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Geetanjali Shree joins the longlist for this year’s international Man Booker award with her novel Tomb pf Sand translated by Daisy Rockwell in a first for a Hindi –language fiction to be considered for the prestigious award. The Beacon republishes the extract from the translation that appeared last November. Get a glimpse of its unique flavor!…[Read More]…
Personal Notes
Geetanjali Shree, Hindi novelist and essayist, remembers Intizar Husain whose death anniversary falls on February 2nd as an affectionate friend with a disposition that helped him cross cultural boundaries in dialogic immersions. ..[Read More]…
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Tomb of Sand marks Hindi novelist Geetanjali Shree’s latest fiction Ret Samadhi’s rendition into English by Daisy Rockwell. Both, texts, finds Mayank Jain Parichha are unique in their innovativeness and use of non-linearity to unfold the narrative. …[Read More]…
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An excerpt from her forthcoming novel Ret Samadhi offers a glimpse of what to expect from Geetanjali Shree; translated as Tomb of Sand by Daisy Rockwell……[Read More]…
Literary Trails
With her fearless spirit that exuded an irrepressible and bold articulation of freedom, and a fierce commitment to her vocation, Krishna Sobti (February 1925-Janury 2019) was a rare fusion of monumental writing and a monumental personality, remembers Geetanjali Shree…[Read More]…
Personal Notes
Darius Cooper responds to Geetanjali Shree’s “Growing up in Two Tongues” with delightful vignettes of multilingual possibilities and offers a clue as to why “English…determinedly adopted me.”..[Read More]…
Personal Notes
Hindi fiction writer Geetanjali Shree on growing up in two languages invested with an objectionable colonial hierarchy, finding the ‘Centre’, her centre in the ‘Other’ that turns her vocation ‘visible’...[Read More]…
Personal Notes
Novelist Geetanjali Shree ruminates on man’s hubris and her own anguish as its ‘collateral beneficiary’. …[Read More]…
Literary Trails
In a response to Sudhir Chandra’s meditation on Gandhi’s first birthday and his assassination in Independent India, Ashoak Upadhyay finds evidence that his legacy lives, less in remembrance, more as moral quests.…[Read More]…
Between The Lines
Interrogating notions such as “national identity” through the lens of creative writers can be rewarding feels Nicola Pozza as he delves into texts of S. H. Vatsyayan ‘Agyeya’ (1911-1987), who had regarded essentialist categories–“Hinduism”, “Indianness” or “Hindutva” — with much suspicion. …[Read More]…
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A very timely parable on the need to distinguish between ‘humanitarian’ and the ‘human’, Manjula Padmanabhan’s one act play entertains and provokes.…[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]…
Personal Notes
Never before has India witnessed such an “Organization of Hatreds” targeting minorities and the questioning, disobedient mind. Writers across languages and genres appeal for change. …[Read More]…