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Jun 18, 20234 min read
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,...
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Jun 18, 20237 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,...
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Jun 18, 20235 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...
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Jun 18, 20236 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...
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Jun 18, 20234 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...
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May 21, 20237 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...
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Apr 26, 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...
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