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 ...
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 ...
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...