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Dancing Widows

December 25, 2012 - by India Writes Network

Dancing Widows In this exclusive extract from her stirring novel about the plight of widows in pre-independence India, Bapsi Sidhwa evokes yearnings of Chuiya – a child bride who is …

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Poetry

December 25, 2012January 19, 2013 - by India Writes Network

The Butterfly Arun Kolatkar There is no story behind it. It is split like a second. It hinges around itself. It has no future. It is pinned down to no …

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In Good Faith

December 14, 2012August 2, 2013 - by India Writes Network

Asra Q. Nomani’s Standing Alone in Mecca is at once compelling and predictable, clichéd and refreshing. Its moments of startling frankness and honesty prevent it from descending into another exercise …

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Souza Painting Fetches 173,000-Pounds

December 14, 2012January 19, 2013 - by India Writes Network

Indian art is going global and is bringing not just accolades, but big money to its practitioners. In Britain, paintings by Indian artists have created the right kind of buzz …

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Who is an Indian Writer?

December 13, 2012January 24, 2013 - by India Writes Network

For that matter, who is an Indian? Being an Indian who has always lived in India, I used to think I know. But over the past few years the diaspora …

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Writing is a concentrated form of thinking.

November 19, 2012December 9, 2013 - by India Writes Network

Writing is a concentrated form of thinking. I don’t know what I think about certain subjects, even today, until I sit down and try to write about them. Maybe I …

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A Wounded Civilisation

November 19, 2012December 9, 2013 - by India Writes Network

And Proust, too, killing himself to write his book comes close to the concept of dharma when, echoing Balzac, he says that in the end it’s less the desire for …

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Ten Years of the Fatwa

November 19, 2012December 9, 2013 - by India Writes Network

I can’t go on, says Beckett’s Unnamable. I will go on. A writer’s injuries are his strengths, and from his wounds will flow his sweetest, most startling dreams. — Salman …

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Riding On God’s Chariot

October 18, 2012August 2, 2013 - by India Writes Network

Priti Aisola evokes divine frenzy and fervour she saw on her recent visit to Nataraja Temple in the ancient pilgrim town of Chidambaram in South India – the home to …

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Retracing Roots, Creating Identity

December 25, 2011August 2, 2013 - by India Writes Network

Neera Kapur-Dromson, a fourth-generation Kenyan of Indian origin, has wrestled with kindred issues of identity, roots, cultural clashes and self-creation as long as she can remember. An Odissi dancer, who …

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