A Wounded Civilisation
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
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 …
Read MoreRiding On God’s Chariot
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 …
Read MoreRetracing Roots, Creating Identity
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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