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  • In Muntazir, Home Of A Prince
    Marked by deeply-felt lyricism, this novel, set largely in the inter-war years in India and Bali, is a rumination on freedom, loss and responsibility
    Jul 12, 2018
    | Anjana Basu
  • Come To Lord Over Us
    The Indian need for a king conflated the benevolent Hobbesian monarch with the need to overthrow British rule, while drawing much from colonialism
    May 23, 2018
    | Anjana Basu
  • Cries In Twilight Hours
    A sense of filial abandonment stalks and steers the life of the heroine and provides the framework for this novel set in a brutal apartheid South Africa
    May 09, 2018
    | Anjana Basu
  • Depth Charge To Shambala
    Maitreya Buddha’s birth leads to a fantasy-laden dive into the world of Buddhist myth, populated by yakshas and asurs
    Apr 12, 2018
    | Anjana Basu
  • Not Quite Ready To Mingle
    Exploring the experiences of single women in India, Sreemoyee Piu Kundu’s book lays bare the barriers, judgements and sneers they still face
    Feb 16, 2018
    | Anjana Basu
  • One Thousand Paper Cranes
    In this evocatively written tale of a girl growing up, concrete reality slips out of reach, yet is all the more believable, leaving some lingering questions
    Jan 12, 2018
    | Anjana Basu
  • Panjandrum In Disorder Central
    This dark atmospheric text about Francis Newton Xavier, poet and painter, bristles with the nature of the two arts, solitude and hangers-on
    Nov 03, 2017
    | Anjana Basu
  • Lessons Of Amorous Sentiment
    Amid a young Indian’s notches on his American bedposts and flashes of life back in Bihar, Amitava Kumar floods his novel with studious ephemera
    Jul 27, 2017
    | Anjana Basu
  • Lattice Of Lyrical Majesticity
    The royal masque in Akbar’s glittering court at Fatehpur Sikri is occasion for Sealy’s exquisite poem-prose, decorated with words, absences and old longing
    May 11, 2017
    | Anjana Basu
  • Her Emotions Curdled Thick
    This slim novel stews in the passionate juice of wronged love. The protagonist, symbolically wedded to deep Krishna love, rages on.
    Mar 09, 2017
    | Anjana Basu
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  • The Mamata Who Stole Christmas
    Walkers around Calcutta's Rabindra Sarovar had grown used to being surprised by music; and from surprise it had become an indulgence. But gradually a note of disharmony crept into the proceedings...
    Dec 27, 2016
    | Anjana Basu
  • Not At My Son's Funeral
    Is it possible to do it in cold blood? The Nazis certainly did. But this? Looking into their eyes and asking them their names one by one?
    Jul 05, 2016
    | Anjana Basu
  • The Residue Of Faith
    The stink, the uprooted bamboos, the vegetable peels — all that is left behind once the prayers are said and the festival draws to an end
    Mar 15, 2016
    | Anjana Basu
  • Jurassic Park, Kolkata Version
    Nothing compares to the noise that Deshapriya Park was generating — an entire cement protima, and huge to boot, the goddess 88 feet tall.
    Oct 22, 2015
    | Anjana Basu
  • The Writer Will Not Dance
    The situation between writers and Santhals is actually fairly similar...
    Oct 13, 2015
    | Anjana Basu
  • Inheritance Of Loss
    In the corridors of Nabanna the perception is that Kolkata must become London, quite forgetting that the city was actually based on the London model
    Sep 22, 2015
    | Anjana Basu
  • The Extinct Bungalow On Bondel Road
    Set as the backdrop to an inane world that was always trying to throw yesterday into the face of now, it was incongruous and it was magnificent.
    Aug 03, 2015
    | Anjana Basu
  • Voters And Other Strangers
    The symbolism still gets you — a woman in a white sari with a green border going up against a wall of red promising change.
    May 13, 2015
    | Anjana Basu
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