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The Best Historical Novels Set in India
Thank you for recommending this list of historical novels set in India. Would you say there are themes that unite them? Kind of, yes, in the sense that the books I’ve chosen—except for Cuckold, which goes into medieval times—are all set in the 20th century, because that seems to be when English came to the forefront for a larger minority of Indians. Many more began speaking English, writing in English. And my own interest has been that very turbulent century, which produced an independent India.
Celebrity Couple Alert: Kriti Kharbanda and Pulkit Samrat's Grand Wedding Unveiled in Delhi's Manesar!
Get ready for the wedding of the year as Bollywood stars Kriti Kharbanda and Pulkit Samrat are all set to take their relationship to the next level with a lavish ceremony. After dating for a couple of years, the adorable duo is ready to say “I do” amidst the breathtaking landscapes of ITC Grand Bharat in Manesar, Haryana. Let’s delve into the exciting details surrounding their upcoming nuptials.
Decoding the Traits of a Top Runway Model in 2024: The Rise of Yilan Hua
In the fast-paced world of fashion, one name stood out in 2023 for dominating the runways: Yilan Hua. Hailing from China, this 24-year-old model made waves by gracing an impressive 89 fashion shows, surpassing her peers from around the globe. But what sets her apart, and what does her success signify about the evolving landscape of luxury fashion? Yilan Hua’s meteoric rise in the fashion world is a testament to her versatility and adaptability.
Allu Arjun Fan Clashes Emerge in Bengaluru: Police Launches Probe into Viral Altercation
In a recent incident that has stirred social media, fans of South Indian superstar Allu Arjun were captured in a viral video engaging in a heated altercation with a man believed to be critical of the actor. While Allu Arjun received a grand welcome in Vizag, Andhra Pradesh, as he commenced filming for the next installment of the Pushpa franchise, a contrasting scenario unfolded in Bengaluru’s K.R. Puram district, where a street brawl involving the actor’s fans surfaced.
The Suitable Poet
The Suitable Poet The Suitable Poet Sit, drink your coffee here; your work can wait awhile. You’re twenty-six, and still have some of life ahead. No need for wit; just talk vacuities, and I’ll Reciprocate in kind, or laugh at you instead. The world is too opaque, distressing and profound... We both laughed and drank coffee. I am not twenty-six. But there is still a lot of time ahead. Outside, the world continued being profound and distressing. A red book glowed in the lamplight.
Oscars 2024 Fashion Highlights: From Polka Dots to Floating Shoulders
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Ankita Lokhande Opens Up: "I Will Always Respect Sushant. I Don’t Need Anyone’s Permission To Talk About Him"
In an exclusive conversation with Zoom for their Wonder Women Series, renowned actress Ankita Lokhande delves into various aspects of her life and career, shedding light on her journey from humble beginnings in Indore to her thoughts on discussing her late boyfriend, Sushant Singh Rajput. Addressing criticisms surrounding her openness about her relationship with Sushant, Ankita remains resolute, stating, “For me, people’s opinions don’t really matter.
‘Across’: A poem by Vikram Seth
Across these miles I wish you well. May nothing haunt your heart but sleep. May you not sense what I don’t tell. May you not dream, or doubt, or weep. May what my pen this peaceless day Writes on this page not reach your view Till its deferred print lets you say It speaks to someone else than you. Published with permission from “The Poetry of Vikram Seth”, Speaking Tiger Books. This selection is curated by Yamini Krishnan.
The Frog and The Nightingale Summary Analysis Questions Answers Class 10 CBSE English Communicative
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30 Years Of 'A Suitable Boy': Memorable Quotes By Vikram Seth
‘A Suitable Boy’ Prolific writer Vikram Seth’s ‘A Suitable Boy’ was first published in 1993. It’s been 30 years since then, and the bestseller is now considered a modern classic. Revisiting ‘A Suitable Boy’, here we share some memorable quotes from it.
The Best Indian Novels
We’re talking about your choice of the best Indian novels. In a country with so many different languages and cultures it may be hard to generalize, but do you think there is anything that stands out about Indian literature and makes it distinctive? That is a tough question, but I would say there’s a love of storytelling, of narrative, and a very particular use of narrative – as a way of discussing complex philosophical ideas. I would also say Indian novelists use language very sensually.
How Author Vikram Seth was scammed by Amazon?
Vikram Seth most celebrated Indian author was “scammed and stonewalled by Amazon. The author of A Suitable Boy, in a piece published in a national newspaper, and shared by his sister Aradhana Seth on Twitter “My brother, the writer Vikram Seth, was recently scammed by Amazon. It is appalling and here’s the story in his words.” Author Vikram Seth has ordered 10 bamboo bookcases from Amazon, paying Rs 9,990 in total.
Modern Recruiting Techniques 2022
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A Valentine’s Day Reading List
Love is in the air. Date plans are being made, and the pops of red all around are unmistakable. It’s Valentine’s day. As you dig into another decadent box of chocolate from your secret admirer, you’re craving for the perfect love story to get into the spirit of the season. There are some great options out there, but we’ve narrowed the list down to 10 novels – a mix of classic and popular, global and Indian - that are guaranteed to tug at your heart strings.
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World Photography Day: Hong Kong’s Most Picture-Perfect Destinations
Hong Kong is one of the most picturesque destinations in Asia. It’s a place wherein you can get countless memorable snaps clicked. From temples and monasteries to state-of-the-art architectural marvels and museums, the city offers travellers a range of picture-perfect locations.
Underrated Novels by Indian Authors That Will Blow You Away
Image: Shutterstock Ever come across a book in a box of your grandfather’s college junk or at a library gathering dust? Well, these books are truly absorbing and once you are hooked to them, you will not believe that you have never heard of them! Some books don’t take much time to be listed among the acclaimed bestsellers in the world, while others don’t usually get the buzz they deserve.
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Sampurna Chattarji: Writing isn’t Everything and other poems
Poet’s Note: Composing from an awareness of lived reality and embedded/embodied memory It’s been a long road since 2007 when my first poetry book Sight May Strike You Blind was published by the Sahitya Akademi. Looking back, I am tempted to quote from a poem in which I invoke Amelia Earhart who, being “neither reckless not complacent” knew exactly “when to lighten the load and burden the heart”. I think that might very well sum up where I am today.
Mustansir Dalvi: Poems, New and Old
Poet’s Note: ‘The appearance of the poem on the page is significant’ I started writing nonsense poetry, in the manner of John Lennon’s In His Own Write and A Spaniard in the Works. Mangling words to convey ideas in slant, it was important to present my poems on the page in as conventional manner as possible, so readers are thrown on reading the poems. At the time there were no readers, only myself. The appearance of the poem on the page has remained significant for me ever since.
Arundhathi Subramaniam: Zoomsday and other poems
Poet’s Note: Why Poetry? Why poetry? The question is often implicit in people’s gazes when they hear of one’s creative pursuits. Why read poetry? And why on earth write it? Why indeed? It certainly doesn’t improve the GNP, reverse the Arctic meltdown, or boost the quality of people’s sex lives. Recent American researchers claim that poets actually die sooner than other species of writers. And then, of course, everyone usually stays clear of you: readers and publishers in particular.
Keki N. Daruwalla’s Four New Sonnets
Writing is a life by itself, with the ages thrown in. It seeps in learning, experience and runs parallel to the growth of the mind. Sounds ponderous, so please forgive. (We Indians are only impressed with ponderousness.) Summing up my muddied career in verse, first few volumes were visual: veni, vidi vici — who said that Caesar or Mussolini, I think Il Duce, beloved of our Right Wingers.
Manohar Shetty: Crime of Passion and other new poems
As a writer of poetry since the mid-seventies, I’ve always been something of a formalist, making sure that the lines and words interlock and emanate a certain tension through the form itself and through the emotion invested in them.I’m not quite sure how I’ve ‘evolved’ as a poet after my first book was published back in 1981.
Anjum Hasan: The World As My Illness and other poems
Poet’s Note: ‘Each poem has to speak/ of the world’s wholeness’ The model of poetry before me when I began writing was, however patchily, a twentieth century, mostly European, one. The passion to create in language something, an intensely personal something, that could stand up to the ghastliness of the century.
Devdan Chaudhuri: The Diamond Sutra and other new poems
Poet’s Note: In Search of the Poetic My first ‘published’ poem — in a school magazine — was written when I was fifteen. I am trying ever since. Sometimes, with the help of my stars, I have managed to discover an observation, an image or a truth. My method of discovery, like a child who discovers a curious stone, like an explorer who discovers a new leaf, is strictly scientific: I completely rely on accidents and miracles.
Nandini Sen Mehra: Peanut Shells and other poems
To me, poetry is intimacy. It is how the world moves through me and how I make sense of it. It is also how I process my own disquiet; once it finds its way to a poem, sometimes I can set it down. It comes from many places; impressions of people I observe, the natural world of trees and plants, mountains, rivers and rocks, creatures, big and little.
Mamang Dai: New and Old Poems
To be honest I don’t know what to say about how one writes poetry. I was always interested in ‘verse’ — music, songs, quotes and stories. So there are numerous influences along the way to when one actually started writing a poem up to the point when this poetry was published. I think poetry is about the truth of a moment. It is ‘feeling’ and this means responding to life with your whole being.
Natasha Malpani Oswal: Starry Night and other poems
Poet’s Note: ‘The poems are my truest voice’ My first collection of poems, Boundless, captured my search for my own identity in my twenties as I built my career as an immunologist and investor in London, and then moved to California to do an MBA at Stanford. I wrote Reinvention after moving back to India after ten years of living abroad. The transition has been both difficult and rewarding. I wrote these poems as I grappled with the idea of coming ‘home’ and ‘coming of age’.
Hemant Divate: I’m a Freshly Slit Chicken and other poems
Hemant Divate writes of his world, of his everyday embedded-ment in it. A prisoner of his own reality, he is aware of his incarceration. Words are his sharpened spoons and knotted bed-sheets of possible escape, but instead they record his failures to do so, time after time. Each recourse in his product laden, consumerist mall-fantasies are additional scratches on his prison walls where he marks his days measured out in poetry.
Jayshree Misra Tripathi: The Sixth Chakra in Foreign Lands
Poet’s Note: ‘I try to present a poem in context’ In the late 1970s, all the prescribed Literature texts for the M.A. at Delhi University were from the West. At 20, I was inclined to write poems that conformed to received standards. Sonnets came easily. I began to read Nissim Ezekiel, Dom Moraes and other Modern Indian English writers, as they are now called. Modern poetry at University had ended with Yeats’ An Irish Airman Forsees His Death.
Arvind Krishna Mehrotra: New Poems From ‘Lockdown Garden’
Poet’s Note: My vessel was not even a paper boat I typed up the first poems I’d written on my Royal typewriter, one to a page as the poems were short, and took the sheets to a bookbinder in Colonelgunj, Allahabad, whose one-room establishment I passed on my way to the university. He had a round face and puffy eyes and was always dressed in a dhoti and vest. He was sitting cross-legged on the floor, surrounded by stacks of sheets, some of them folded and kept in another stack.
Adil Jussawalla: Shorelines and other poems
Notes on Adil Jussawalla’s craft: ‘Poet of the synapse’ Adil Jussawalla’s is a sharp yet intimate voice, fearless but melancholic, marked by a darting, wily syntax, bristling rhymes, and an original prosody. In Trying to Say Goodbye (2014), his third collection that won the Sahitya Akademi award, for instance, he moves across time to address an array of histories, both personal and public.
Rukmini Bhaya Nair: Cow and three new poems
I began this sequence of poems after the terror attack in Mumbai on 26.11.2008. Thirteen years ago. Today, on the eve of its being published, there have been tragic iterations of that attack by white men in America and New Zealand, by powerful governments — and by a virus that had brought our turning world to a standstill. It is not clear to me that poetry can work its traditional enchantments in this torn world.
Ranjit Hoskote: Groove and three other new poems
Poet’s Note: ‘I work with the interweaving of text and musicality’ Perhaps it was music that came first, for me, as a child. Among my earliest memories is the sound of the music that my parents played on their Garrard turntable, their 45 rpms and LPs — Rimsky-Korsakov’s ‘Scheherazade’, Vilayat Khan-saheb’s raag Yaman, Emilio Pericoli singing ‘Al Di La’, Khachaturian’s ‘Spartacus’, Bismillah Khan-saheb’s raag Durga, Ravi Shankar and Ali Akbar Khan in concert.
Arathy Asok: A Woman an Afternoon and other poems
It is the way in which our life and the world mingles in the four walls of a place called home, or the way in which our personal becomes the political or the political becomes an everyday awareness of life lived. My poems have always tried to address the spaces that fall between the thought and the lived, the philosophy and the politics. Such poems and poets have always taken my fancy.
Sudeep Sen: Preparing for a Perfect Death and other poems
Poet’s Note: ‘The architecture of a poem is very important to me’ The architecture of a poem is very important to me — partly because of my own inherent interest in architecture itself. During my days of apprenticeship, I consciously wrote using traditional strict forms, formal metre and rhyme schemes.
CP Surendran: I Am Nearly Not Here and other new poems
There are four poems of mine here. Three of these are new. Dolomedes Tenebrosus: Spontaneous Male Death is taken from my last work, Available Light: Collected Poems. There are a few allusions here that I have not bothered to explain unless absolutely necessary.
Maitreyee B Chowdhury: Poems, New and Old
Poet’s Note: ‘Kabir taught me simplicity of form and thought’ My journey as a poet started while in high school with a reading of Kabir and his poetry. While the love of Kabir never left me, it taught me valuable lessons in simplicity of form and thought, while also leading to a larger journey towards Sufi poetry.
Ashwani Kumar: Waking Early in Ayodhya and other poems
Does it really matter if you speak your mother-tongue and write in another language? Sorry if it sounds grim, a neurotic excuse to admit that you don’t have a language of your own? I must confess English is neither my mother’s language nor my father’s language. Also, there is nothing ‘Anglophone’ about my social and family background. My family travelled frequently from small town to smaller towns and often lived in makeshift asbestos-roofed houses.
Jayanta Mahapatra: Four Puri Poems
I painfully realize that the poetry I’ve written (and much has been published in the last fifty years) has been restricted perhaps to the apparently colloquial narrative poem, which meditates on not so much of reality, but struggles to go deep into the nothingness that surrounds us in this world of ours. I have suffered this, but have truly gone nowhere.
Priya Sarukkai Chabria: Bank (a lockdown poem) and other poems
Poet’s Note: ‘Writing poetry is a phenomenon akin to prayer’ Writing poetry is for me both enchantment and intuition and a phenomenon akin to prayer; it makes me feel intensely alive. The poet is submerged into the self’s mysterious waters as she seeks words to illumine life’s experiences; then she’s pulled outward to share her discoveries with unknown readers.
Jayant Parmar: Dreams of Giacometti and other poems
Poet’s Note: ‘The poem is a painting in conversation and the painting is a silent poem’ Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519), Italian artist Painting and poetry differ only in the medium of expression otherwise both have a single soul. The poem is a painting in conversation and the painting is a silent poem.
Sadaf Munshi: This Is No Dream and other new poems
Poet’s Note: Minimalist style relying on precision and powerful evocative imagery A polyglot, I have traveled extensively in India, Pakistan, Iran, Europe and North America. My poems represent different interconnected themes and cross-cultural tropes touching various chords of human psychology and experience. Growing up in a conflict zone, spending days and months without leaving home, in a state of constant fear and fury, poetry became a medium of expression.
Abhay K: Blossom as Ipe Amarelo and other poems
Poet’s Note: ‘I let my poems grow naturally’ As a poet, I read a lot of poetry written by other poets and write a little. I don’t have a fixed time to write poems. I write whenever I find time. When I was posted in Moscow I used to write poems in the Metro while commuting from my residence to the university and office and back. I can find solitude and concentration to write even in the most crowded places. First an image, then a line comes and then gradually a poem starts taking shape.
Mira Nair’s Adaptation of A Suitable Boy: A Tale of Missing Perspectives
To the Lighthouse (1927), a novel by Virginia Woolf, has a section called ‘Time Passes,’ that describes the events of ten years in twenty pages. Perhaps the writers of the BBC’s adaptation of Vikram Seth’s A Suitable Boy (1993) might have looked to her for hints on time management, in order to fit its 1,400 pages or so into six hour-long episodes. To the Lighthouse might also be called a study in the intensity of perception; they matter more than traditional parametres of plot and character arcs.
‘A Suitable Boy’ Review: Pedantic, Overlong and Misrepresented Version of India in the 1950s Panders to Non-Indian Viewers
Clearly, not just the film but even the book on which it is based, Vikram Seth’s 1980s-written novel of the same name, “A Suitable Boy,” is aimed at the non-Indian English-speaking populace, which predominantly means the white audience, with a special aim at the British maybe. For we see a just-Independent India, and its upper middle-class and upper class society alongside the have-nots.
Spool of Pink Thread
Big brown boxes lie uncertainly about 903 as she takes a quick peek into the opened door. The walls are no longer orange with white patterns but whitewashed — a newly undressed bride, vulnerable and needy, waiting on her man to approve of her and her body. Kulsum walks silently into the front room, stepping over the boxes.
Quiz on poets and poetry
September 26, 2020, is the 132nd birth anniversary of Thomas Stearns Eliot, one of the few US citizens who decided to become a British subject. This quiz. dedicated to his memory, is all about poets and their poetry. Poet’s corner 1 While on TS Eliot, which famous novel by Evelyn Waugh gets its title from Eliot’s Wasteland; the last words of the line, “I will show you fear...”? 2 Born into nobility, this poet is regarded as the founder of modern Russian literature.
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