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January 28, 2017
Nanditaa Bannerjee
Book Club, Books

Rules of Desires rooted in the Earthly Mantle of Life

Knowledge of the history and culture of the backdrops of Dipika Mukherjee’s stories are remarkable. The plots are based across urban Kuala Lumpur to cosmopolitan Shanghai, small towns of India, and...

July 26, 2016
Arindam Roy
Books

Poetry of Politics in Koshy’s Allusions to Simplicity

Ampat V. Koshy’s latest anthology of poems, Allusions to Simplicity: Collected Poems, is a political statement of the celebrated poet. He is in the tradition of Wordsworth, Coleridge and Arnold in...

June 30, 2016
Maya Khandelwal
Books

Nastanirh: A Lyrical Love Story of Tagore in Translation

Maya reviews a translation of Tagore’s love story, Nastanirh, into English by Lopa Banerjee. It is one of the most lyrical love story, which was made into a film, Charulata,...

April 15, 2016
Ampat Varghese Koshy
Books

Exhuming the Self

An eminent poet, Ampat Koshy reviews Rochelle Potkar’s collection of poems, Four Degrees of Separation, for Different Truths. Rochelle needs to be read for her images, her vocabulary, her language, her...

March 16, 2016
Madhumita Ghosh
Books

Architecture of Flesh: Gutsy, Intense and Deeply Sensitive

Ravi Shankar a unique voice that is bold and honest, sensitive and rational. He writes spontaneously, from his gut, with guts. He is not ashamed to speak of man’s most...

March 13, 2016
Joyce Yarrow
Books

The Language of the Heart

Joyce reviews a book on literary criticism, Reflection of Social Ethos in the Selected Novels of Arundhati Roy, Kiran Desai and Arvind Adiga by Dr. Archana Bhatarcharjee for Different Truths....

March 8, 2016
Sheikha A
Books

Spiritual, Passionate and Idyllic Poems by Three Poets

Sheikha reviews, Igniting Key, a collection of poems by three eminent poets, Pramila Khadun, Dr. A.V. Koshy, and Dr. Bina Biswas for Different Truths. Igniting Key by Pramila Khadun, Dr....

January 11, 2016
Vibhuti Bhandarkar
Books

Deluge of Emotions in the Poems of Tikuli

Vibhuti reviews Tikuli’s book, Collection of Chaos. The reviewer says that the poet has ventured to utilise very different forms of poetry, and yet maintained her voice in it....

December 29, 2015
Dr. Mallika Tripathi
Books

Floral Symbols in the Poems of Ratan Bhattacharjee

Book Details 1. The Ballad of the Bleeding Bubbles, Cyberwit.net. Allahabad, 2013.(ISBN: 978-81-8253-446-9), Price $15 /Rs.200 (Pages 78) in print. 2.Oleander Blooms , Authorspress, New Delhi. 2015. (ISBN: 978-93-5207-045-9),...

December 6, 2015
Madhumita Ghosh
Books

Kalkatta is a Sure Page Turner

Kunal Basu’s fifth novel, Kalkatta, has the voice of a master storyteller. His research into the world of the subaltern is impressive. The character of the protagonist, however, comes through...

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