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Blindness and insight: K.R. Meera’s ‘The Unseeing Idol Of Light’
N Kalyan Raman The Unseeing Idol of Light, novel by KR Meera, translated from the Malayalam by Minishty S, Penguin Random House India,...
Jun 18, 20235 min read
A Search for Moorings
N Kalyan Raman Stories of the True Jeyamohan | Translated from the Tamil by Priyamvada, Juggernaut Books, 2022 Among the works of...
Jun 18, 20235 min read
Chronicle of a Defeat Foretold
N Kalyan Raman Avasthe: A Novel by UR Ananthamurthy, translated by Narayana Hegde, Harper Perennial, 2020 Rarely do we come across the...
Jun 18, 20234 min read
Earthly Spirit: A review of Apeetha
N Kalyan Raman Apeetha by La. Sa. Ramamirtham, translated by Padma Narayanan, Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 2014 'Spirituality’ in...
Jun 18, 20235 min read
Stories from the margin: Review of 'Video Mariyamman and other stories'
N Kalyan Raman Imayam, the author of the book under review, has emerged as an eminent writer of Tamil fiction over the past 30 years....
May 21, 20235 min read
Living and dying: Review of Tamarind History
N Kalyan Raman Tamarind History by Sundara Ramaswamy (English translation: Blake Wentworth), Penguin Books India, New Delhi 2013 209...
May 21, 20237 min read
The Reality of Dreams: Review of Fading Dreams, Old Tales
N Kalyan Raman FADING DREAMS, OLD TALES by Pa Visalam,Oxford University Press, 2013, 270 pp., 495 “Communists are loath to talk about...
May 21, 20237 min read
Myth and Reality: Review of One Part Woman
N Kalyan Raman One Part Woman by Perumal Murugan, Penguin Books India, 2013 At the heart of Tamil writer Perumal Murugan’s One Part Woman...
May 21, 20236 min read
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