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Set in a post colonial idyll, where time seems to move with stubborn viscosity, Fire on the Mountain is minimalistic. Right off the bat, a contrast is established between the sluggishness of the setting and the preciseness of the narration.
Popular perception states that Draupadi was a kritya, a woman brought forth into the world to destroy, the ill-fated one who was the cause of the ruin of a whole clan. She was a bad omen; a dark stain on the history of Bharat.
“The word 'translation' comes, etymologically, from the Latin for 'bearing across'. Having been borne across the world, we are translated men.” Salman Rushdie compares migration to translation- some things get carried across while others are left behind.
Mark Haddon’s The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time came highly recommended and did not disappoint. Depending on how one approaches his latest offering, The Red House, one will either feel engaged or let down. The hovering presences and themes are still the same- death, family, a child’s mind, images, impressions- but the story, for the lack of a better word, is very different.
Kashmir eludes all. It does not lie in the old movies. It does not reside in declarations of Mughal emperors. It escapes the imagination that tries to pin it down as a burning wound of terror on the nation’s visage. If it’s essence to be captured, only a son of the Kashmiri soil can do it.
Erich Maria Remarque, a World War I veteran and a Lost Generation artist, wrote his most famous novel All Quiet on the Western Front as a testament to a generation that was lost in the ravages of the Great War. Despite being capturing an event that has receded far back into history and the subject of a terrible waste of young lives, to which the world today seems to be desensitized, it is pertinent.
Born : September 3, 1940 in Uruguay Genre : Fiction, history, journalism Nationality : Uruguayan Tweet-ing at : EduardoGaleano About him When Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez gifted Open Veins of Latin America to his American counterpart Barack Obama in 2009 it became an act of great political significance. Open Veins is a chronicling of centuries of exploitation of the Latin American land and people by various imperialist and capitalist enterprises from all over the world, the United States being a leader in that field in the recent past. This was also the entry of Eduardo Galeano into the reading lists of a vast majority of the English-speaking world. This is not to undermine Galeano’s fame among Spanish speakers but only a testament to that quality of his writing which speaks to anyone who reads it. He was born Eduardo Hughes Galeano in Montevideo, Uruguay, where he started his career as a political cartoonist. He went on to become the editor of two highly politically driven papers until his name was added to the hunting lists of the various dictatorial military rules in the continent. He was forced to flee, first his country and then Argentina, in order to…
Brett Lee’s career coincided with Australia’s climb and sway at the pinnacle of cricketing glory. His express fast bowling and his indomitable attitude was as much a reason behind this seemingly endless reign as was the presence of some of the brightest cricketing talent the game has seen.