China is also part of the range of the bengali tiger, and with the rural-urban migration, gives us a new option. There are rural areas now in China where tiger-human conflicts can be minimised. The tiger-farms give us the tool to tackle *one* of the poaching threats, and to be h...
"Now you know," my mother said. "Never turn your back on a ghost." Viet Thanh Nguyen: "Black-Eyed Women" After my brother stabbed him with his pocketknife, the three of us stood there in astonishment, our gaze on the blade, tipped by blood, a silent moment broken when the little ...
He does exactly what he’s expecting to do, ie give a shake to the apparently sound branches of the tree, and make us see what drops off in the process. Certainly this apparition creates a form of shock and readies us for more shaking leaves. Then there’s a more serious case, th...
Won Nobel Prize in 1913, probably more for poetry and stories as for plays; relinquished knighthood in political protest against massacre by English army. Plays written in Bengali and tap into folk traditions, but use a wide variety of styles Nature's Revenge (Sanskrit poetry), The ...
Khaled Hosseini is not an Indian writer, but an Afghan-American writer. But having read The kite runner (2003), I wanted to include my review of it here, because it’s a book about the region, and I know that a lot of people have read it in and around...
Think Bengali and Sarah's ethnographyC) U.S. is more individually focused because in this egocentric climate people perceive themselves as separate and different from other people which means that unlike India where you are identified by your family, caste and so on, Americans are more inclined ...