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IN MONSOON MAGAZINE ISSUE 3
Essays:
Indrani Dasgupta
Bharti Kirchner
Fiction:
Tahira Naqvi
Poetry:
Sophia Ali
Leena Kizilbash
Anmole Prasad
Arathi Rao
Reetika Vazirani |
Art
Shezad Noorani
Reuben Sinha
Reviews:
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni's Sister
of My Heart
Shashi Deshpande's A Matter
of Time
Michael Ondaatje's Handwriting
Bharti Kirchner's Shiva Dancing
and Sharmila's Book
Bapsi Sidhwa's Cracking India
V.K. Mina's Splintered Day |
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Interviews:
Bharti Kirchner:
Novel
writing is mostly an unconscious process. A silent, meditative space inside
you prepares you for a journey. You drop your skin and dip into another
universe, the universe of your characters.
Shubha Mudgal:
If
bhakti (devotion) is a certain surrender, a certain focus and concentration
on a particular subject, then even the act of trying to hit the correct
note is an act of worship.
Tahira Naqvi: In
much writing about South Asian women we see only pictures of misery and
despair and you and I, and others like us, know there's a lot of joy and
fulfillment in our lives as well.
Bapsi Sidhwa: Writing
has been my savior, my hobby and my love. It has been my passion. It is
the music in the background of my life. |
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Top 10 South Asia List
(in alphabetical order by author)
1. Blasphemy by Tehmina Durrani.
Viking/Penguin. 1998.
2. Book of Shadows by Namita Gokhale.
Viking/Penguin. 1999.
3. Travels with the Fish by C Y
Gopinath. Harpercollins. 1999.
4. Countdown by Amitav Ghosh. Ravi
Dayal. 1999.
5. A Sin of Colour by Sunetra Gupta.
Penguin India. 1999.
6. The Blue Bedspread by Rajkamal
Jha. Picador India. 1999.
7. Difficult Daughters by Manju
Kapur. Penguin India. 1998.
8. The Romantics by Pankaj Mishra.
India Ink. 2000.
9. Toad in My Garden by Ruchira
Mukherjee. Picador India. 1998.
10. The Trotter-nama by I Allan
Sealy. India Ink. 1999. |
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Top 10 South Asian Diaspora List (in alphabetical order by
author)
1. What the Body Remembers by Shauna
Singh Baldwin. Knopf. 1999.
2. Freedom Song: Three Novels by
Amit Chaudhuri. Knopf. 1999.
3. Fasting, Feasting by Anita Desai.
Houghton Mifflin. 1999.
4. A Matter of Time by Shashi Deshpande.
The Feminist Press at CUNY. 1999.
5. Love in a Blue Time by Hanif
Kureishi. Scribner. 1999.
6. The Interpreter of Maladies By
Jhumpa Lahiri. Mariner Books. 1999.
7. Moth Smoke By
Mohsin Hamid. Farrar Straus & Giroux. February 2000.
8. Handwriting By Michael Ondaatje.
Knopf. 1999.
9. The Ground Beneath Her Feet
by Salman Rushdie. Henry Holt. 1999.
10. Beach Boy by Ardashir Vakil.
Scribner. 1999. |
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| Read 'Em & Weep
Dog-eared pages, underlined sentences and images stuck to our mind like
glue… the following are books we heartily recommend, hoping they will move
you in the same way they move us!
1. Incantations by Anjana Appachana. Rutgers University Press.
1992.
2. The God Of Small Things by Arundhati Roy. Harper Collins.
1998 (reprint edition).
3. Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie. Penguin
USA. 1991 (reprint edition).
4. Mirrorwork: 50 Years of Indian Writing 1947-1997 edited by
Salman Rushdie and Elizabeth West. Henry Holt. 1997.
5. White Elephants by Reetika Vazirani. Beacon Press.
1996. |
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Author Recommendation of the month:
Vikram Chandra
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