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The delicate poetry of ordinary life
N Kalyan Raman A Town That Laughed by Manu Bhattathiri, Aleph Book Company, 2018 Manu Bhattathiri’s first novel, The Town That Laughed,...
Jun 18, 20234 min read
Life in the Details
N Kalyan Raman The Hills of Angheri by Kaveri Nambisan, Penguin India, New Delhi, 2005 , 392 pages, Rs. 350/= Kaveri Nambisan’s novel,...
Jun 18, 20237 min read
The Art of Losing
N Kalyan Raman Low a novel by Jeet Thayil, Faber & Faber, 2020 It’s not by accident that Dominic Ullis, the name of the protagonist in...
Jun 18, 20235 min read
Poets in their time
N Kalyan Raman The Book of Chocolate Saints, a novel by Jeet Thayil, Aleph Book Company, 2017 raw-jawed, weak-fleshed there, stopped by...
Jun 18, 20236 min read
The way we were
N Kalyan Raman Plastic Emotions by Shiromi Pinto, Penguin Viking, 2019 Starting from the late 1940s, newly decolonized counties in Asia...
Jun 18, 20234 min read
The Human Stain: Review of A Girl and A River
N Kalyan Raman A Girl and a River by Usha KR, Penguin Books India, 2007 “The past is not dead. It is not even past yet.” William Faulkner...
May 21, 20237 min read
The Babu's Printed Word Atop The Tower Of Babble
N Kalyan Raman “Out again, on the unplumb’d, salt, estranging sea…” India is a country made for the valorisation of exile, much like...
Apr 26, 20237 min read
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