The Popcorn Essayists
It is difficult to write about a subject whose basic definition is yet to take shape. In fact, cinema remains one of the trickiest things to define. A few greats attempted to give it a formal dimension but ended up contradicting each other big time—leaving the audience confused all the more.
Chopped Green Chillies In Vanilla Ice Cream
It’s a story of Chinmoy Bose, an adolescent boy who is dedicated to his friends and family. Living in a middle-class neighbourhood in South Kolkata, his life changes when his parents land upon an unexpected win at a lottery of Rs 2 lakh. And with the win he is uprooted from his beloved neighbourhood, where life seemed perfect.
Mao's opium different from Marx's
Bihar has traditionally been part of the opium trade route, that heady stuff being a by-product of indigo. In 1903, the British colonial administration had appointed a certain Richard W Blair as a sub-deputy opium agent in Bihar.
Married to misfortune
It was a cloudy afternoon. Fatima Bibi (name changed) picked up her child from a nearby school. On the way back home, her cell phone buzzed.
The Lotus Queen
The Lotus Queen’s plot is intricately woven with an amalgamation of love, passion, trust, friendship, sacrifice and courage. The novel provides an engrossing insight into the history of Rajputs and their Kings and Queens and the testing times through the great history of Rajasthan.
Cuban drug for Cancer to enter India
After starting the process of registration in other countries, Cubans are all sett to introduce it in India too. However, the process of registration in India is cumbersome and will take time to complete.
Final phase of elections in WB a challenge
Will the Maoist allow peaceful vote in the final phase of Assembly elections in West Bengal? With only one day to go, this is a major question that Election Commission is facing at this point.
Seasons of Flight
Manjushree Thapa, a Nepalese who has lived around the world, delivers yet another stellar work after Forget Kathmandu, in the form of Seasons of Flight- a brilliantly poetic and yet so contemporary tale of a young Nepali woman’s never ending journey in search of personal fulfillment.
The Jinn is out of the bottle
“Auras of the jinn†gives its readers a real feel of the simmering cauldron that the contemporary Pakistani society is. The characters are drawn from various strata of the society and bring with them the idiosyncrasies of their respective socio-economic backgrounds.
The Passage
At a time when reality and violence it perpetrates appear to gore and disturbing, it is only natural for the human being to seek suspended disbelief. At times, one wonders as to why are sci-fi, meta-physical, paranormal and plain fantasy novels still sell millions of copies when some of the real events have the power to shock and disturb us almost as much.
‘Running a coalition govt is difficult’
No one is a ‘Harishchandra’ in politics. But play development oriented politics. In this kind of an environment, how can there be development?
Educationists to bring reforms in Sindh schools
Drastic steps are being taken to bring back the school system in Sindh to the centre stage and extend all support to the reforms for bringing visible change to meet the Millennium Development Goals by 2015.
The Wandering Falcon
The novel deals with the qualities, or rather traits, of people that are often misinterpreted by the West. How many times have you read in papers that a terrorist was “terrifyingly calm†on the face of death?
China: A History
"There is great chaos under heaven; and the situation is excellent," Chairman Mao had famously quipped. Now Mao was supposed to have brought a fresh, but an alien idea, and applied it on the teeming masses of an enigma called China.
Nandanar's kids can't be consigned to flames
The book under review attempts to trace the history of the movement of Paraiyars of South India. It narrates how the Dalit caste transformed itself through a prolonged struggle from a state of landless servitude into a sedentarized agricultural community.
Issue Dated: Feb 5, 2017
