The renaissance Bengali, a being always about to vanish from history into silence, has now probably ceased to exist.
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The Constitution, not the Hindu Right, grants the Muslim his place in the country. It's his Indianness he can use as a weapon of assertion.
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To make a pronouncement on who might be the pre-eminent literary figure of post-independence India is both foolish and difficult...
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Give us the Rushdie who is louche, open to enthusiasm, strange yet intimate, who could be himself rather than one burdened to produce a major work
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Kolatkar's last offerings relish carrying mortality's burden
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Bloodaxe’s edition of the Collected Poems of Arun Kolatkar, edited by Arvind Krishna Mehrotra, reveals how provocative and inventive its bohemianism once was.
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The widely accepted India-as-an-experience model has, alarmingly, sacrificed the specific and heightened conceit
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The writer-musician-singer offers us an exclusive poem on an anti-offering
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His working day—his surroundings, his routine, the conditions that allow him to write
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At the Park Street-Middleton Row corner, speckled with iconic establishments, infected with old joie de vivre, one can sense a ‘modern’ past feeling for the future. In Calcutta.
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