288 entries
Category: Books
RIVER OF SMOKE by Amitav Ghosh. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011. 522 pages. Some four years ago, India Currents’ review of Amitav Ghosh’s Sea of Poppies ended with a description of a character and a hypothesis: “And there is Benjamin Burnham, a living embodiment of the British East India ...
Samhita Arni uses patua artist Moyna Chitrakar’s vibrant illustrations to tell the story of Ramayana from Sita’s point of view
THE GOOD MUSLIM by Tahmima Anam. HarperCollins: New York. $25.99 hardcover. 304 pages. harpercollins.com tahmima.com Available in hardcover and for e-readers. In A Golden Age, (IC, April 2008) Tahmima Anam introduced the intrepid Rehana Haque and her revolution-bound children, Maya and Sohail. Their story ushered us into ...
ZELDA, QUEEN OF PARIS: THE TRUE STORY OF THE LUCKIEST DOG IN THE WORLD by Paul Chutkow. Lyons Press. 209 pages. $22.95. Between Zelda, a mangy slumdog (before Danny Boyle made slumdogs fashionable), and Paul Chutkow, American reporter, brings forth an alchemy of deep adoration. The book is a ...
LIFE HAPPENS AND DEATH TOO: STORIES AND POEMS by Latika Mangrulkar. Strategic Book Publishing. $13.50. 182 pages. Available in paperback and e-book.In the story, “Waiting,” Kusum, an elderly lady, still retains her fierce independence of spirit. It is much against her will that she succumbs to the ...
THE WAY THINGS LOOK TO ME by Roopa Farooki. St. Martin’s Press:
New York. $25.99. 352 pages. stmartins.com. roopafarooki.com Available
in hardcover, paperback, and e-book.
My mind is not like a neat and tidy garden; it is a vast untidy
wilderness, full of irrelevancies, but with ...
Review of KARMA: A NOVEL IN VERSE
Interview with Ghalib Shiraz Dhalla, author of The Two Krishnas
While Indian writers did not win any coveted literary awards in 2011, several award-winning and best-selling authors did come out with new books, such as Aravind Adiga’s Last Man in Tower and Chetan Bhagat’s Revolution 2020. What is remarkable, though, is the many works that referenced either ...
Review of Someone else's Garden by Dipika Rai,
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