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Showing posts with label Hindi literature. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hindi literature. Show all posts
7 January 2021

Book Review: Desire and Despoliation

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A book review for Firstpost : A recent English translation brings Shivani's 1978 novel 'Bhairavi' to new readers ...
21 May 2020

Shelf Life: The Hand-Me-Downs

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My Shelf Life column for May 2020. Other people’s clothes can be prickly things, fulfilling neither the wearer’s desire nor the giver’s exp...
8 September 2019

Abhishek Majumdar: Theatre Interview

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A two-part interview with the multi-talented Abhishek Majumdar, published on Firstpost in August: At 38, Abhishek Majumdar is one of In...
17 July 2019

First as tragedy, then as farce

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A very short profile of the playwright-director Abhishek Majumdar, for India Today  magazine. THEY TAKE AS THEIR THEMES OUR MOST DIVISIVE...
15 July 2019

The White Noise of an Urdu Poet

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Very happy to report that I started a new column called Shelf Life , down at TVOF . A monthly look at  literature through the prism of clot...
22 April 2019

Prisons of the Mind

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My Mirror column : At 25, Ismail Merchant's  In Custody  ( Muhafiz ) remains a striking vision of poetry amidst pettiness, as well...
30 January 2019

Obituary: Krishna Sobti 1925-2019

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My obituary of a great Indian and a great writer, who was also warm, forthright -- and crucially, great fun.   A DELIBERATE OUTLIER ...
13 January 2019

Blue-sky filmmaking

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My Mirror column : The late Mrinal Sen’s career took off with a 1959 film,  Neel Akasher Neechey , a rare portrait of a Chinese protagoni...
20 May 2018

Meet the American who translates some of India’s finest Hindi writers into English: Daisy Rockwell

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An interview I did for  Scroll : ‘I was tired of translating detailed descriptions of male desire and women’s breasts.’ Daisy Rockwe...